Gina Schock Quotes

What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

I hope I can show my talent in every game.

Our daily work ethic - that need to always do better and top our last performance - is what makes USWNT football players who we are.

I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.

I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

I remember hearing Will Smith, back when he was just a rapper, saying, 'When all the other rap stars are in bed, I'm practicing my rapping.' I try to be like that. There is always something to improve.

I just come to training, work hard, go home, prepare for the game, then play.

Repetition every day. That's something the great ones do is never get complacent.