John Romaniello Quotes

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

We can all pick a goal and find a reason to do it. Then some of us can actually do all the little things over and over again. That's definitely a harder step. Doing it again? That's where it gets to be a beast, when you have to repeat. It's the hardest part of it all.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

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

I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

The bottom line is, you really have to commit to something if you're going to be successful in it.

The difference between mediocre, good and great is you're able to have the enthusiasm for prep, to work to prepare to win the same in January that you do in August, when everybody says they're excited.

At the end of the day, you can have all the talent in the world. But if you don't put in the work, nothing works. The engine doesn't start going. It's a car without gas.

I'm capable of just putting my butt in a chair and spending nine hours a day studying poker. I took it as a full time job. So I think that it's a combination of being lucky, but also really studying, working hard and pushing myself to do everything I could.

To be stronger, you finish everything you start. You can't take a break.

If I start something I am going to finish it.

Always be focused and never let it go - that's something I've learned so much. I learned that from Simeone.

That is how I have been at any level, whether it was semi-pro at Dorchester Town or at Liverpool. I set myself targets. The mentality doesn't change.

All of us, we know, not just in football but in life, that we cannot achieve important things without consistency.

It gets hard no matter what it is you're doing - school, work - the only way you're going to do it is if you stay consistent and focused.

Each fight of my career I take just as important as the last. And I will keep it that way.