Sean Doolittle Quotes

I know it is a cliche, but I am just going to focus on each game and try to do as well as I can.

I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.

As an athlete, success is not just about winning; it is about working hard and giving it all you have. I have always taken one match at a time and worked hard; when I succeeded, I worked further on the aspects of the game which worked for me; when I failed, I listed out my weaknesses and worked on them.

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

When I was a junior and an up-and-coming athlete, I don't think I looked to anyone for inspiration. I was so busy trying to improve myself and learning these new events and learning about the decathlon in general that I didn't really have time to focus on anyone else.

I know what it takes to make myself perform.

I try to value every day, every training session, every game.

I can't practice every practice or play every play like, 'Oh, I'm trying to get in the Hall of Fame.'

My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.

I'm focused on the good things and that makes you really appreciate what you are doing with the team and the time you are out there on the court.

It is vitally important for me to concentrate on myself, on the work that I have to do on the track and off it with the engineers, without really thinking about what people are expecting from me on the outside.

Every time I write down my goals, I realize that I have to hit the gym. I have to eat right. I have to improve in the ring. I have to give it 100%. I have to improve on my promos. These are the things that go through my head daily because I work hard on them.

Eighty-two games, it's a long season.

I look back and see what life could have been if I hadn't applied myself in basketball, and I'm really thankful for every experience I've had.

I didn't really think I was really good, I was just playing the game because I enjoyed playing it with my friends. Then once I started playing organized soccer, parents, coaches and other teammates were telling me to keep going and that I could become something so I started believing it.

I try to get better in every aspect of my life, not just on the football field. I am competitive, and I just want to always get better.

You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.

It is my goal to be world champion.

I have to step up and do well in every match I get to play.

At 15, I went to boxing. That's when I really wanted to be a champion, so that gave me a goal in life, so it kept me focused on training instead of other things.

At the time, when I was growing up, my habits were misconstrued as laziness, not caring. But when I got out onto the pitch I actually did care about football, I just showed it in a different way.

I think I'm extraordinarily motivated.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.