Vernon Wells Quotes

I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Just wanting to play, I think that's my biggest attribute, just wanting to play through whatever I have to in order to go out and compete.

In the Champions League you need a certain level of perseverance, strength, dedication to scoring over 90 minutes.

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

Some guys milk injuries and miss a couple games at the beginning. Other guys, they tough it out for the betterment of the team.

Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

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.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

We're not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher than they are.

Serbian people are not soft, and if the coach wants me to play, then I will.

You don't get to the top in professional sport without being hard and tough, but I do that in my way. I don't shout or scream, but I am determined and I will push harder than 99 per cent of cricketers in training.

Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.

Any time you're banged up, your body hurts, you don't really feel like going to the gym. That's when I feel like you really have to push through it. That's when you really make the leaps and bounds in your game. So, pushing through those days is never easy, but that's what gets you good.