Alistair Brownlee Quotes

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

There were so many times when I felt like running away from the akhada. But now that we are bearing the fruits of all the hard work, we understand its value.

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.

I'd get out at school at 3:00 P.M., show up to dance practice at 6:30 P.M., practice for three hours till 9:00 P.M., get home at midnight, and try to do whatever homework I could before getting back up for 7:00 A.M. But I did it because I liked dancing, and I loved the music.

Coaches would have me in the gym do 1,000 kicks for a practice. I would do them until everyone was gone, until I had done all my kicks. People asked me why I would do it - that's stupid. But my coach told me to do something like that, and I knew it would benefit me, and I would do it.

I gave a lot for football because I wanted to be as professional as possible.

I could sit at home, watch TV, and go for the odd run. But to be the best, you have to make this sacrifice, keep going away and doing blocks of training in the mountains.

I've dedicated my life to competitive dancing, so I'd like to pass that on to others. You can't be half-hearted about competitive dancing, you have to be prepared to give your whole life over to it.

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.

Every athlete has training they enjoy and training that they do because they have to and they don't enjoy so much. Do the training you love, remind yourself why you do it and hopefully it'll all come good for you.

I eat, sleep and breathe training.

Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.

I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.