Jascha Heifetz Quotes

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

Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I'm out there dealing with. I know what I'm out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I'm 100 percent.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

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.

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

The difference between mediocre, good and great is you're able to have the enthusiasm for prep, to work to prepare to win the same in January that you do in August, when everybody says they're excited.

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.

If you don't play with intensity in this league, you're going to get embarrassed. Without hard work, you don't have a chance.

I'm definitely a reps guy. I'm definitely a mental guy, so when I'm out there and I get the opportunity to practice, it means the world to me.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

I want each experience on the ice to be everything I have.

All I can do is turn up and compete.

If you want to be the best gymnast in the world, you have to love the moment. Every single moment that you are competing. Every skill, you have to be showing it off. If you aren't showing it off, what are you doing?

I will take every match seriously and respect every opponent.

You have to get yourself right for the Worlds. If you can't get yourself right for that you shouldn't be playing.

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

Whether I play or not, nothing will change my preparation.