Alexander Volkanovski Quotes

I wrestled when I was a kid. That started me off with the discipline, because making weight was my responsibility. It is a team sport, but it is also a solo sport.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

That's what I think most players want to be remembered as, being a good competitor. Not being a guy who makes excuses. There are a lot of guys who make an excuse before the game why they're not going to win. And those guys are losers.

The fight game has never been just about winning.

For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.

My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.

I respect Demetrious Johnson to the fullest. I wouldn't travel the world and find different training partners and coaches to help me defeat this man if I didn't want to win.

I like a match that shows strength, stamina, scientific technique.

As a tennis player, normally you lose almost every week.

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

You can't afford to lose games. It is always possible that you will not win, but it is the way you play the game.

If I'm tired, I'm coming out. I won't do that to my teammates and stay on the field when I know I'm not going to be able to do it.

When I played cricket for the West Indies, I never worried. I never really watched anyone else. I had a job to do, and I tried to do it to the best of my ability.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously.

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

The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.