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To win you need an internal rage, a desperation, a hardness, and eventually I became a shooter who relished a fight.
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you have to stretch yourself to the limit and leave very little to chance. Only then does reward arrive.
Greatness, I understood early, was a long, sweaty road.
‘Whatever your mind can conceive, your heart can believe, you can achieve.’
‘Pressure is like air. Too much and you have a hurricane. Too little and you suffocate. But in the correct amount it is the breath of life.’
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learning to be perfect on an imperfect day.
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Everyone can get better and they have to because everyone else is getting better. Great athletes interrogate themselves, review their games, it is precisely how they avoid stagnancy.
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sometimes you need to lose, painfully, for a weakness to become a strength.
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IT’S NOT EVERY FOUR YEARS. IT’S EVERY DAY.
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(Ali’s) head was bowed, and when he raised it his eyes rolled from the agony of exhaustion. “Force yourself, champ!” his corner cried. “Go down to the well once more!” begged Bundini (Brown), tears streaming down his face. “The world needs ya, champ!”
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could be directly linked to winning is impossible
Sweat and desire is never a sexy answer, but eventually, if you distil greatness, often this is what it is. Practice, practice, practice, want, want, want. Like you have taken some holy vow.
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