Melanie Roach Quotes

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.

During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

Discipline has been a key factor to my success.

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.

My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.

I have repeatedly said that success requires concerted efforts and support of the fans.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.

If you want to achieve what you dream of achieving, whatever it may be, you're going to have to earn it.

I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.

I think working so hard in Portland to earn the right to have it be my team and to have my own team over the years and try to play at a high level, that was hard-earned.

I want to go and get more goals, create my chances for the team, and do my best for Tottenham Hotspur.

My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.

I'm very attached to my family. My mother is hard on me when she has to be, and that makes a huge difference. Their support means I need concentrate only on playing.

I know what it takes to make myself perform.

I came here to Hercules with a willingness to do well, and my objective is to demonstrate my worth and my ambition.

Obviously it's how bad do you really want to be successful, essentially. Like, what does that really mean to you? Why are you doing it?

I wouldn't have become the player I have without my father.