Quotes About Dedication

I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.

You can run in behind someone - one v. one, you're better - so I'm always trying to work on my speed. That's probably one aspect I've worked on the hardest as a player. I want to always improve on everything in my game, but that's one area I really work on.

I already have natural speed, which I don't need to work on, so in training I've been working more on my endurance.

Maybe at the end of my figure skating career, I'll be able to have just the one game I always dreamed of having. I've still got the skill, I think. I'd have to work on my stick-handling skills, but the speed and my hockey smarts are still there.

I train with track athletes, which is weird for bobsledders. I love training with track athletes because they help me work on my speed, and they give me something to cheer for during the Summer Olympics.

Being 230 pounds, a lot of people don't think you can move the way I need to move, so that is just all the hard work I put into my legs and working on my speed and my legs.

I kind of have one speed that I know, and that's to go as hard as I can.

A lot of the people I know, they don't train like that. They do a lot of quick stuff, just speed drills. But I run long distance. I've always been like that, though, even when I was in high school. That's just how I train myself.

It's hard to criticise Ronaldo. When we come back from an away game at 4 A.M., he is one of the players that goes straight to the training complex to jump in cold water to accelerate the speed of his recovery. He is an example to follow.

Speed is something I always worked on really hard.

I have to improve on my speed endurance, and I am working on it.

I'm looking to run the fastest, but I want to prove that I'm more than a speed guy.

My team has helped me improve in many factors - speed, power, experience, the mental game; how I see the fight game is different.

I got speed and power. I got two things. And I've all the other aspects of boxing.

I've already promised that I want to end my career where I started it, as a way of thanking those who gave me the chance to make my name in football. I want to have a spell there before I retire, but one that's enjoyable for me and for them, too.

There was only a little spell at Wigan, when I first signed there, when I wasn't in the team every week.

I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

I'm always trying to improve whether by being more consistent, accurate, fitter or able to bowl longer spells.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

If you're going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.