Wladimir Klitschko Quotes

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

Sports is my passion.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.

If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.

On my way to winning the title, it was great for me, but once I won the title, it was tough for me to get fights.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

Nothing has been given to Deontay Wilder. So with that being said, nothing is going to be taken from me. So I must stay focused. I must. I must. It is an absolute must to stay focused.

It's always fun to go home and play, but you gotta stay focused on the game.

I don't care what you do in life. To say that that year I was the absolute best, especially when you're in a team sport - and I have more of a personality that I wished I would've played an individual sport - to win a championship, to get 60 people and focused in one direction and do it over a seven-month period is phenomenal.

I want the belt. I'm focused on the belt, I'm focused on the world championship belt.

If we win every game, that's all I care about.

At 15, I went to boxing. That's when I really wanted to be a champion, so that gave me a goal in life, so it kept me focused on training instead of other things.

My only focus is on our games and my performances - they are the most important things.

I've been in the gym, I've been training and I've been getting the Ws. I think that played a factor in me staying out of trouble outside the ring, staying focused on what's in front of me, and that's my boxing career.

I'm somebody that really locks in to play, and it's not easy to say hello to all the ushers and all the people who work around the team and then try to execute the game plan and beat the other team.