James Keller Quotes

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

Everyday I walked on to the field I was the best center.

I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Volleyball was the hardest thing I've ever had to do.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

I'm just happy that I get the opportunity to do the things on the court that I do in practice.

I will be happy to deliver for my country as an all-rounder, for which I am working very hard in the nets.

I always knew I could make it in baseball.

When I step on the court I'm going to compete. That's one of the reasons I work hard everyday.