Royce Gracie Quotes

I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

If I'm on the bench, I want to be ready.

I train really hard for each and every fight. I never take anyone lightly.

A champion must be ready at all times.

When I'm training; I'm prepared for anything.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

I'd love a training camp. But if they walked in the door right now and said, 'Do you want to fight for the title in the next 10 minutes?' I'm out the door, warming up, ready to go.

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

Sometimes footballers, we get soft a little bit.

I don't see a holiday as a time to break from boxing - it never stops.

I'm always ready to play when called upon; that's why I train so hard.

If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

Train hard, fight easy.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)