Miguel Cotto Quotes

I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

We gotta show up and pay attention to details, embracing the process of hard work, and developing our bodies and minds to get ready for the season.

I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

My life is training.

I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.

When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don't think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn't really have time to focus on anyone else.

What wins a fight is training hard, working hard, and that's what I do: Train hard every time. Being pretty or not is not the point.

I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

I push myself to the limit.

I'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

I never doubted how I could help the team, and I never stopped working hard every day in training.

I know what it takes to make myself perform.

I'm just trying to work on my game and get better. That's all I can do. Keep working hard, keep trying.

Work hard. Through determination and self-focus and discipline, you can accomplish anything.

I just push myself to work hard.

I think if you want to prove something to yourself and not fail there's only one choice and that's to work.

Push yourself every single day to continue to work at yourself. And I feel like that's the reason why I made it.

My training has always been really tough. I've always worked hard. I've always been very committed to my training and focused on my workout.

My swim coach was very tough on me, and I respond well to that training... being pushed to my limit.