Peter Bergman Quotes

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

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

You want to win everything you can in practice.

I'm the champion, and to stay ahead, I have to work harder.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

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

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success.

There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that's the reason to get up earlier or stay up later.

To be number one, you must train like you are number two.

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

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.

If you want to beat the No. 1 player in the world, you have to give everything.

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.

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.

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

We just must make sure we give everything we can to become champions.

There is no comfort zone. You continue to work hard, to be consistent and to deliver performances.

I don't care if I'm starting or sweeping the floors. You hear me? I want to win.

God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best.

I play to be the best.