Dominick Cruz Quotes

You can be one inch from the national team and the opportunity to make so much money and a life out of it. That's why people hang on so long.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

All I wanted to be was a player.

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

It is difficult to take in how long you have been doing one thing when you compete at the highest level and always with the highest intensity.

To stay at the elite end of professional sport you need to show an awful lot of dedication.

Since a very young age, I've dreamt of being a professional soccer player, and from a psychological and mental aspect, I've tried to prepare myself to be a good player.

Coach Calipari pushes his players, and that's why his teams are successful.

I hope to keep being competitive until I retire, and I hope that's here. It's Barca or nothing.

This is the one sport you don't want to be one foot in one foot out.

I guess every athlete has in the back of his mind being good at a sport and making it big.

To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

I've always felt I should do things 100 percent or not do them. It's all or nothing. That's what makes me a good athlete - doing things with all the 'ganas' I can.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

My hockey comes first compared to everything else.

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.