Edge Quotes

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Wrestling is tough, and it takes hard work - mentally and physically - to do what we do in that ring.

I tell people all the time that football taught me about life in every single aspect.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

I used to travel for 12 hours to learn to wrestle when I was 15.

As a ballplayer, there is no Christian way to swing a bat. There is no Christian way to swing or throw.

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

Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination - there's just nothing like it in any sport.

Folks who blithely disregard the benefits of football likely haven't played or are being intellectually dishonest. The game, perhaps more than any other, requires absolute dedication and teamwork. Yes, I ultimately quit, and if I ever have a son, he won't play, but I'll always cherish the lessons I learned from football.

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

When it comes down to it, I always played hard for my teammates and I played hard for my coaches no matter who it was, ownership.

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.