Caitlyn Jenner Quotes

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

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

In football, you have to be consistent.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

I focus on playing football, and there are many battles you have to think about and which must be won.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

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.

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

I am training 8-9 hours a day and will give my best shot for Rio.

I just line up, and I compete.

Since I was 9 years old, I've been training to be a champion.

As a competitor you want to be out there starting and competing.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

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.

People in athletics thrive on competition. That's what makes you better.

Every training session you take part in, you have to work very hard and train hard because there is no other way to get where you want to be - it's not a secret and not a magic formula - just hard work and application.

I just come every day, do my stuff before the game, work hard. You work hard, and it pays off.

As a footballer, you always want to win.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

Football is one of the most popular sports in the country, and there are many reasons for this. You can take so much from football and apply it to life in general. Just some of those things are goal-setting, preparation, teamwork, perseverance and discipline.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip.