Mirai Nagasu Quotes

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

I suppose the appeal of boxing for me is seeing people do well when they have worked really hard.

It's very hard to win anything in athletics.

I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.

The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

Athletes are very cool to me.

I been in this game a long time.

Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

As long as I am able to compete physically with the younger players, I am going to play.

Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.

I always believe that it's beautiful to win important matches, but it's also very important simply to reach those moments. I truly believe that.

I can honestly say I want to be one of the best to ever play the game.

Now I've learned to enjoy my football while I can. Every time I'm on the pitch, I just enjoy it.

I have so much respect for this game and the process that goes into playing at a high level.

I probably train just as hard or harder as everybody.

You don't get this opportunity many times in life to compete against the best in the world every night. I certainly didn't expect to have 10 or 11 years of chances at it, so I don't want to take that for granted.

It's an honor and a blessing to be part of 'R.B.I. Baseball.'

I love to play football. And I think anybody that's ever been my teammate or I've been theirs understands how much I love that.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid, but to stay there is the hardest part.

I love playing football every day. I love working hard, I love training, I love the games; I love the challenge. As long as that still applies, I don't see any reason to call time on something that makes me so happy.