Marvin Hagler Quotes

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

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

You have to make sacrifices. You have to work out, to be relaxed in your mind, to focus on what you're doing.

I gave up tennis to study, but not before it had shown me how to focus and concentrate. It taught me self-discipline: I was playing four or five hours a day and doing five-mile runs. When I stopped, my energy had to be channelled into something else.

I have to work hard and give my all in games and training sessions.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

The holidays are important, but the path I've chosen doesn't take that into consideration. I do what I can to enjoy them, but it's one of the sacrifices of being an athlete.

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.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

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.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.

When you actually get on the field, you've got to work. You've got to train. You've got to learn. You've got to put 100 per cent into it.

You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.