Richard DeVos Quotes

I'll focus on my training, no matter who I fight.

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 always knew I had to work hard.

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

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

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

I can just put my head down and train hard.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that.

Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

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.

If you really want it, you need to really work for it.

Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Don't cut corners or compromise to achieve your dreams.

You don't get to the top in professional sport without being hard and tough, but I do that in my way. I don't shout or scream, but I am determined and I will push harder than 99 per cent of cricketers in training.

Even when there was a difficult time for me I was always focused on my job or I was always working hard. That is the only way I think you can achieve something.

Everyone wants to be in the first team, but you have to accept the situation and keep working hard.

When I couldn't play at West Ham, I kept my mentality, and I went to train every day to be a better player.

I'm just going to keep working hard on and off the training field.

For me, what it means to be competitive is to work hard but compete in this type of game when you need to play, you need to suffer, you need to fight.

Just being able to grind, day in and day out. You have to be a different kind of person to not just do the workouts, but to not make money for months at a time.