Robert Snodgrass Quotes

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

I always love training at crazy times - it's an edge I'm creating over everyone else.

I am constantly trying to improve my playing and hope to get more and more mental strength. I think these are two of the success keys.

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to be all around you. You just have to make sure that your body and mind is fine-tuned. Then you go out there and do it.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is - and that gives me the edge. If I'm supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it's only been 19:34, I'm going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I'm never going to cut it short.

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

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.