A Quote by Ellie Simmonds

It's hard to stay at the top. There's a cheesy saying isn't there: it's easy to get to the top but once you're there it's harder to stay there, and I'm fully aware of that.
I have to work harder than what I am now to make sure that I stay on top of this and stay on top of the world and be competitive in major championships.
It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.
At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.
You have to love what you do because it's really, really hard work to get to top and it's even harder to stay there.
Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
I just have to keep working, just stay on top of my game, stay on top of my weight and stay prayed up.
It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.
It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.
It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.
I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
It's not for nothing that they say it's easier to get to the top than to stay at the top.
I can't imagine that having a child is good for your focus, because it's a tough industry. You have to be very focused. And once you're successful, you have to fight harder to stay on top.
The Andrade I knew in Mexico would do anything to get to the top and even more to stay on top.
I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.
The next generation did not seem to be smart enough to realise that you have to work to be at the top and to stay at the top. You can have talent, but if you do not work hard it's not going to happen.
There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.
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