Nick Dempsey Quotes

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

I am training 8-9 hours a day and will give my best shot for Rio.

Athletes are sort of part of the community at large. They have to be dedicated to what they do, and go through lots of peaks and valleys. And there's a lot of training that goes into their careers. It's a struggle. Very dramatic.

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.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

Squash is my passion, and it is in my blood.

If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

Bike riding requires permanent sacrifice. It means training 11 months out of 12 and 110 days of racing, whatever the weather conditions. Early in life, I realised I did not have intellectual potential, so I dedicated myself to cycling.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

It's my job to show up, make weight, and prepare to be a world champion if that opportunity presents itself.

I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.

We train and work so hard in our sport, we would be nothing less than a warrior. Day in, day out, this is our life. It's everything. The Olympic dream.

Training is what sacrifices. I see that in my body.

I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

Physically and mentally, it's quite hard. But I'm playing cricket for England. It's what I dream about doing.

I'll do anything to get a place in the national team.