Ada Hegerberg Quotes

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

Don't cut corners or compromise to achieve your dreams.

Even though the city of Memphis and this organization has welcomed me with open arms, I play every game like it's my last. Play as hard as I possibly can. Been no different my whole career.

I've been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.

Continuity is what makes success, but it is all about getting over the humps on the road to that; that's what football is all about.

If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.

There was a time in my life I wanted that Olympic medal, and all I did was train, train, train and work harder than ever.

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

It wasn't an easy journey to participating in the Olympics. It has taken me 14 years of training and hard work.

I was determined to make my name in the wrestling world no matter what sacrifices I had to make.

If you are going to be successful in football you have to make sacrifices and that's something I am happy to do.

You need to have dreams, you need to go for it, otherwise why would you be a footballer?