Romelu Lukaku Quotes

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

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

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.

I was 15 years old when I started wrestling full time, and I know what I had to go through to get here.

When I was about 16, I started to believe I could play professionally. I worked hard and focused more.

I'm putting everything I have into my boxing career so I get everything out of it I possibly can.

We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It's a tough grind that you have to go through that people don't understand.

I gave a lot for football because I wanted to be as professional as possible.

I would definitely like the ball as much as possible... That's why I train.

It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

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.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

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

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

I always put my boxing first.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.

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

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

I know what it takes to get to the top.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

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.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.