Ryan Garcia Quotes

There was a time in my life I wanted that Olympic medal, and all I did was train, train, train and work harder than ever.

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.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.

If you want to achieve something great, you have to work hard for it. It is as simple as that.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

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 takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

If you really want it, you need to really work for it.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

There's a lot of people that have great ideas and dreams and whatnot, but unless you're willing to work really, really hard, and work for what you want, it's never going to happen.

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

It's important to work really hard to get what you want.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.