Aaron Peirsol Quotes

Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

I love to win. But probably equal to that - I love doing what I do.

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us to work every day to improve and grow. We have really learned to love our sport more and more, year to year. And the hard work really pays off.

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

My kids are all conscious that they have to prove themselves for who they are. I'm happy for them to do anything they want as long as it's their passion and they work hard.

As a director, obviously you should challenge yourself. It's important, because it's this thing that takes you away from your family for years. You have to really love the thing you're doing. It's very important.

Soccer runs in my blood.

Parkour does not have to be liked or disliked! Parkour is here and it will stay here forever! Because it was born from a pure heart and nourished from all the love that a son can give to his father!

Skating is in my heart, not my head

Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It's what I love the most.

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.