Roddy Piper Quotes

I've been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

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

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

I always put my boxing first.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

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 think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

My WWE career has been amazing. It took a lot of time for me to get here, and you never stop paying your dues.

It wasn't an easy journey to participating in the Olympics. It has taken me 14 years of training and hard work.

My idea behind the film was to show the struggles an athlete continually endures. There is always a story behind a successful sportsperson. In 'Soorma,' we have tried to recreate that.

I was determined to make my name in the wrestling world no matter what sacrifices I had to make.

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.

There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.

I've been involved in professional wrestling since 2000 when I started training and there hasn't been one day that I haven't put everything into it.

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

If you are going to be successful in football you have to make sacrifices and that's something I am happy to do.

The price of championships will never change. It's been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.