Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Quotes

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

Being hardworking is the best thing you can show children.

I have always been very dedicated to tennis, and it's true that I made some compromises in my life. For example, I never went out to parties when I was younger, and I spent less time with friends.

The most important thing when I joined Ajax was to combine it with school.

At 15, I went to boxing. That's when I really wanted to be a champion, so that gave me a goal in life, so it kept me focused on training instead of other things.

I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

I always put my boxing first.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.