Vanessa Mae Quotes

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.

I expect to play at an All-Star defensive level, and everything else will come.

Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.

I've dealt with expectations my whole life and have been blessed to be able to play at a high level, whether it's football or baseball.

There's always competition in the national team.

I think pressure is good. Just watching my brother and my dad be professional athletes, I think pressure has driven them and has caused them to excel more.

I hustle, I run down the line, I do whatever I can to win ball games. Those are the only things we can control as baseball players.

I have to prove myself five times over.

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

Olympics is everyone's dream.

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.

I can do my job with the best of my peers in the National Football League.

Just gotta try to have fun. It's a business. You just gotta come out there and play hard because you never know when another player might take your spot.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

The gold medals from world championships and National Games prove the efficiency of my daily training.

You still have to go perform; it doesn't matter what the tournament is.

There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.

People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.