Connor McDavid Quotes

If you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because, after my football career, I want to sit down and think I did something good.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame... those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I'd love to play like those guys, but there's still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

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.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

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 think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.

We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

My life in science has been rich and rewarding. I have sacrificed very little.

I want to be like a Christy Turlington, still doing my craft and still killing it. I want longevity and to be able to do this for a really long time.

Kyrgios has got to look in the mirror if he wants to become a top player and win Grand Slams.

NBA or nothing, man. I don't need the money. I just want to give back to the game. Anything else is a step down, so I just want to give the NBA a shot.

I can't practice every practice or play every play like, 'Oh, I'm trying to get in the Hall of Fame.'

I'd say my focus is on the season, my focus is on making the Colts the best team in the NFL. I'm completely engaged and have always been engaged, even when I was in rehab.

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.

The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

No one's going to put in the effort you are for your career.

I'm invested in the UFC, but I'm invested in myself at the same time, showing everyone that I am one of the greatest.