Danai Gurira Quotes

What I have to do is train hard, be at the disposal of the coach and make the best of what I have here every day so when I'm called upon I'll be ready.

I'm very focused and working really hard in training every day.

It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

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

I practice a lot.

My confidence comes from the daily grind - training my butt off day in and day out.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

I hate not practicing.

Have a good work ethic. You've got to practice, practice, practice. I'm not telling you what to practice - that's up to you.

I always want to play. But it is about making sure you stay ready.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.