Quotes About Dedication

I've had the same hunger, the same desire to win, since I started kicking a football when I was five years old.

I didn't set out to win Olympic medals, to play at UConn, to play in the WNBA. I just loved to play basketball. It's really very simple. Then when you start thinking about those other things, that's when thinking gets complicated.

I'm just a physical player and I just try to make physical plays and just plays period for my team and do things that they need me to do to help them win.

I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was glad that I endured those three years - that I did not give up.

Nothing means more to me than helping my team win.

Obviously, I am hoping to go on and win many trophies for Spurs and for England. That's always been the aim since I was a kid, dreaming of lifting the trophy one day for them, so that's what I've got to do.

I just focus on what the team needs me to do to win.

There's so many levels. You can rise on the day to win a national event or a world title but the level you need to rise to win an Olympics Games is another one altogether.

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.

I'm someone who believes in having motivation at all times, win or lose, individual awards.

The only thing I can do is fight. Win or lose, I'm here every damn time.

Win or lose, I believe in giving my best and that is what I always do.

Win or lose, I always focus only on giving my 100%.

Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I put the guy away in one round, I can go back and say I made a lot of mistakes and need to tighten up. But that's the type of person I am. Improve. Improve. Improve. When I lose I come back stronger than ever.

Win or lose, I'm going to leave everything on the mat. That's what gold medalists do.

You know, I think He honestly does care about how we play on the field, more than anything more than win or lose our hearts on the field.

By running, you're making that commitment that says, 'I'm dedicating myself to public service.' Win or lose, you're making that statement, and you actually are taking a step in that direction.

I've always done my best inside the Octagon, fought the best there is, and win or lose, I've done my best in my fights.

I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I've been to three World Championships... so I think it's like a win-win.

I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

There will always be ways to pay my rent, whether I wind up having to be a waitress on the side or whatever it is, but I think it's so important for me to do things that I'm passionate about.

I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.

Whenever I go to the gym with my trainer, we always wind time down while each of us is getting up shots, like at the end of the clock.