Misty Copeland Quotes

If you want to grow as a player, it takes commitment.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft.

When there's training, I will focus only on training.

I might take a little time off from school to train. I'd be a totally different animal if I trained full time.

When I was 12 there was a big shift in mindset and I realised that if I want to get something out of it then I need to work hard and focus all my energy just for this sport and that's when I started training and taking things more seriously. I became a lot more self-critical and analysed the driving more and more, and that was when I was 12.

It is important for me to remember that time learning anything substantial, even if it's not my favourite topic, is time well used.

Every day in training, we will try to work to keep improving the things we can do and maintaining the levels we're at.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

If you want learning, you must work for it.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.