James Haskell Quotes

I can just put my head down and train hard.

If you want to be the best, you can't take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it's too early, and your body tells you you're a little too sore, but you've got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you're striving for.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

My life is training.

One of my biggest influences of all time would probably be one of my soccer coaches, Coach Darlington, from high school. He was always trying to get me to push myself really hard. No excuses. I always hated him, but it paid off. I think that's what life is all about... when you push through the hard stuff and it pays off.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, 'How did you get to where you're at today? How did you get to where you're running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?'

I train hard every day, I don't know what the word 'impossible' means.

I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

The warrior is always trying to improve.

I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.

Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined grunt work. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself. You might be able to fool some people, but you can never fool yourself. Your toughest critic is the one you face every morning in the mirror.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

I always knew I had to work hard.

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

I push myself to the limit.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.