Quotes About Dedication

As athletes, our job is to train and compete.

You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?

I really love football and for this reason alone, I trained hard every day, building up good stamina and energy.

In 2008, Pistorius was the only guy who could run under 22 seconds at 200 m. So I said I would run as fast as that in London. I practised; I trained.

I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying their work.

Who enjoys practising handstands at seven in the morning? But that's how children were trained in the old days.

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'

When I first moved out to L.A., I was still 17. The deal with my dad was that I would be able to live out there if I were to treat my acting classes like college classes. So when I moved, that's all I did: trained and auditioned.

Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

While my father has a music group of his own, my mother sings devotional songs. So, right from childhood I would sit with them during practice and I trained under Vidod Dwivediji.

Obviously I'm very disappointed. I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S. Open.

I trained my butt off and competed and got to where I wanted to be from rigorous training and dieting.

My father was a trained engineer who got his qualifications at night school.

Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

People will always have their opinions on how hard you trained, especially when they only see you on fight night.

I trained together with Jacare for a long time.

I was trained by 'El Satanico' and Franco Colombo.

I trained in the theatre.

I trained in Provincetown, Mass. Back then, they didn't have all the tourists on Cape Cod. Very isolated. Very good spot. I called it the jail. All you could do was train, run, walk, talk boxing.

I trained under Bill DeMott. I did a lot of my promo work with Dusty Rhodes.

Javelin is a very technical sport. I rectified my faults over time. Then I trained under foreign coaches who further rectified my errors.

The downside to becoming a doctor, I think, is it's a very long process; four years of medical school, three years of internship, two years of residency, umpteen years of specialization, and then finally you get to be what you have trained almost all your life for.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.