Kerri Strug Quotes

I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it's time to work on your dreams.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

I know that nothing can be taken for granted, and there is still a lot of hard work ahead of me. However, I am looking forward to the challenge of trying to prove to the England manager that I am worthy of a place in his team, and hopefully continuing to progress my career in the right direction.

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

A master's is a lot more work than my first degree, but I'm an athlete who knows what she wants. I made up my mind, and I'm determined that this is what I'm going to do.

I have to improve to get to where I want to get and to be as good as I hope to be, so I keep working on it.

Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.

The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

I've always had high ambitions and aspirations.

My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there's nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.