Muhammad Ali Quotes

I learned you're going to have to start from the ground up, and honestly, it starts with hard work, hard work in the offseason, and no shortcuts really.

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.

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.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

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'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

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.

Have a good work ethic. You've got to practice, practice, practice. I'm not telling you what to practice - that's up to you.

The fight takes 15 minutes. The build-up takes 90 days. It takes that for a reason.

Over the years, I was always training hard, no matter what position I was in.

Truthfully, what we do in training is 10 times harder than what we ever have to do in a competition.

Keep training harder and always challenge yourself.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

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.

Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.