Bob Richards Quotes

I earned the right to get in the team, and fought every game to be in it.

We just must make sure we give everything we can to become champions.

God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best.

I wasn't as good as some of these guys coming into high school, going into college. I really had to grind to get my position, even still now. I'm still doing the same thing.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

The race by vigour, not by vaunts, is won.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

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

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.

Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.

You just go out and compete and try to earn whatever you can. I'm looking to get better every single day I set foot on this field.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

No man fails who does his best.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

I try to do my best.

I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey.

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.