Fernando Alonso Quotes

That's what defines the best athletes: being capable of showing up year after year at the highest level.

I need to maintain my performance levels high for many seasons. I hope I can do that.

I only had an A game... no matter where I was.

As long as I can play at a certain level, that's what I'll do.

You don't have to get ready if you stay ready, alright? I'm always in the gym, always training, all the time.

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.

I'm fortunate in one way and I can take pride from the fact that I've consistently performed for 10 years, which is something that not many people can do. I've consistently stayed near the top for 10 years which is maybe something that is overlooked and taken for granted.

I am happy to play in the Premier League. It's a competition which encourages players to give only their very best week in, week out and you have to be 100%.

Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

You have to win your place every day and train at 100 percent always.