Nancy Kerrigan Quotes

I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

I get up at 5 A.M., and I train hard. I've got two young children, so I have to get up early. But I like it.

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

I'd get out at school at 3:00 P.M., show up to dance practice at 6:30 P.M., practice for three hours till 9:00 P.M., get home at midnight, and try to do whatever homework I could before getting back up for 7:00 A.M. But I did it because I liked dancing, and I loved the music.

Every day, I do training. Sometimes at midnight I train, sometimes 4:30 in the morning as well.

I train for about 30 hours a week. That's at least four hours every day. I swim at seven most mornings. It's got to be your life. You've got to fit everything around it. If that's all you know and it's what you love to do then it's got loads of positives as well.

No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

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.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.

Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.

At training camp, you brainwash yourself into thinking every, day is the same, no weekends or holidays. It's all the same - a work day. You develop a mental state to just work hard and get ready for the fight.

People only see you on TV and riding around like stars, but they don't see behind the scenes how much time you have to put in working out. The lifting, the eating habits, trying to change all that so you can be that guy on TV, to be a baller, that's what people don't understand.

I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits.

I train almost every day. It's like work.

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.