Lefty Grove Quotes

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

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

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

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

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

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.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

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.

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.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

I have so much respect for people in the service. The mental strength it takes to do what they do is unbelievable.

Train hard, train hard, train hard.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

Just wanting to play, I think that's my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.

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.

Just being able to grind, day in and day out. You have to be a different kind of person to not just do the workouts, but to not make money for months at a time.

I'm going to finish my runs hard, and I'm going to try to set the tone.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

I will get out there and train harder than anyone, five times a day sometimes. You have to be a special person to do that - like, special forces, military maybe.

I was in the Army. I wasn't trained to lose.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.