Tessa Virtue Quotes

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Every race is like training and preparation.

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to be all around you. You just have to make sure that your body and mind is fine-tuned. Then you go out there and do it.

I work hard in training to be ready.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

Without training, I'm nothing. If I'm not training, I'm done. Any athlete, they have to train and they have to practice to win games. For sure. One hundred percent. You have to be training.

It's all about getting your head down, focusing, working hard, competing in training, keeping fit, and picking up points.

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.

The fight takes 15 minutes. The build-up takes 90 days. It takes that for a reason.

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.

We are all football players and we are here to do our best. You want to work hard in training and we will see what happens at a weekend.

Practice don't win games.

We are athletes, and we work very hard in our way to the title.

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

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.