Quotes About Dedication

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

I came here to Hercules with a willingness to do well, and my objective is to demonstrate my worth and my ambition.

Whether you're in year one or you're in year 12, every day you've got to show up with a willingness to compete and to prove that you belong there and a willingness to get better and listen to coaching.

At the end of the day a player has to show willingness to actually want to play for the club, and want to play for the team.

Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you'll enjoy exponential results automatically.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'

I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

If I hadn't become a chef I would have loved to be a top tennis player, although I was never good enough so it wasn't really an option. But that has never dimmed my love of the game, which started in childhood when I was lucky enough to be a ball boy at Wimbledon.

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

I went to Wimbledon before I could walk. It's just been a lifelong passion.

I did eight months of training for 'Wimbledon,' and then, by the time I finished the movie another four months later, I was like, 'That's me. I'm done with tennis.'

If I could have played my whole career on one court it would have been the Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Lunch is for wimps.

Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

When you first win a trophy, you want to do it again and again. It keeps you hungry.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

I motivate myself by the desire to win more trophies.

Personally, what goes beyond sport, you have to put to one side. You need the best to win trophies.

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

If you're not in it you can't win it.

If you're not willing to put in the hard work, to endure and fail, there's no point. You win only if you're willing to do whatever it takes.