Dedication to Sport Quotes

I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I worked hard at that. That made me good enough to play in college and then I wanted to be a good college quarterback. During college I played well enough to make it into the NFL. I never took it for granted and really wanted to play hard at each level and I have always had a lot of fun doing what I wanted to do.

I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.

To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.

I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.

From nine, I started playing cricket. From 11, I knew this is what I'm doing.

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

My daughters won't let me retire. Many times I joke at home that this will be my last year, and they tell me that I won't be able to live without it. I need to play it, watch it on TV or know what's going on.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.

I am lucky to get the ­opportunity to play for France and that alone is a huge motivation for me, whenever I go on the pitch.

People used to ask me, 'What else do you want to do?' For me, the answer was, 'Nothing.' I loved basketball. It's all I wanted.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

I have no regrets coming back for a second Olympic team [in 2016]. It's been an amazing experience. It's been teaching me a lot.

I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid.

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

I want to be a top-flight football player, so I lead the life that enables me to be that type of player. I prefer to be seen in a decent light rather than an indecent one.

I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.

When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped.

I'll say to you truthfully - I don't want be away from my three kids, but I'm here because I love playing for Scotland.

I have given my life to the game and to the sport.

It's a pleasure to play for England, and I will never say no.