Dimitar Berbatov Quotes

I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

This has been my dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this moment, and its finally coming true and I couldn't be more happy.

I am very happy for the kind of response I am getting for my work, but there was a lot of hard work that has gone into it.

When I was 11, I told my mum I would play for England - and by 17, I'd done it.

I'm such a day-to-day person and 'Sports Illustrated' was a 12-year-long dream that finally came true.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it.

I think it's nice to work and then have success.

Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.

I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.

I've worked hard all my life.

Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.

I'm happy for the success that I've had, but I've worked so hard at it.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.

You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

I like to work hard and see the results of my hard work.

I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in the end.