Rose Namajunas Quotes

When you actually get on the field, you've got to work. You've got to train. You've got to learn. You've got to put 100 per cent into it.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.

Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you're talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That's something I didn't really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you're serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.

Every fight is won in the gym. The hard part of our job is getting in the gym every day, six days a week.

The fight takes 15 minutes. The build-up takes 90 days. It takes that for a reason.

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I practice a lot.

The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.

A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.