A. J. Pritchard Quotes

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

I always put my boxing first.

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

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing 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.

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.

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.

If you win a championship, you win it doing many of the same things you had to do when we won championships. You have to be unselfish. You have to work very hard. You have to be resilient. You have to have a passion for what you do.

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

I give everything when I'm on the pitch. When I'm at the training ground, working in the gym or whatever, I always give everything I've got.

To become a great player, you've got to show real dedication and commitment to football, and you've got to be very humble and hard-working. And, above all, you've got to fight to make your dreams come true.

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

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.

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

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.

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.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.