Quotes About Dedication

Ascetics are "strict" only because they want to reserve a major portion of their lives for their passionate pursuit of God.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

Discipline. It means doing what you have to do when you need to do it, whether you want to or not.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. —MAGIC JOHNSON

We all want to win. Every athlete wants to succeed. But the ones who do are those who separate wanting from being willing to make the sacrifice that winning demands.

You can't buy motivation. You can't obtain it from someone else. "Motivation is something nobody else can give you," Joe DiMaggio said. "Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you, and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

Pete Rose said it this way: "What's tough is to go out and work hard on the things that you don't do very well.

The most successful athletes are self-motivated. "The most important thing is to love your sport," said Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic figure-skating champion. "Never do it to please someone else—it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work needed to achieve success.

As Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic champion figure skater, said, the most important thing is to love your sport. Never compete just to please someone else. "You've got to love what you're doing," hockey great Gordie Howe said. "If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains.

The harder you work the harder it is to surrender. —VINCE LOMBARDI

Rod Carew says he has seen many baseball players blessed with God-given ability who simply didn't want to work. "They are soon gone," Carew says. "I've seen others with no ability to speak of who stayed in the big leagues for fourteen or fifteen years… . You have to want to do the work.

He had trained for years to prepare for that moment. When the spotlight came on and the music began, he let fate carry him through. The hard work was over. Now, he told himself, go out and enjoy.

Consistency separates good athletes from great ones. The best athletes win consistently because they think, act and practice consistently.

Coaches and volunteers provide what every athlete needs—encouragement and support.

Memory, perception, coordination, strength: guitar is just plain hard.

He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.

I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, veterans, first responders, and the families that serve alongside them, we can always do a little more.

What is the secret of a fulfilling marriage? Hard work and persistence!

of one California Highway Patrol officer quoted in the book, "It's sheer numbers.… You've got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince.

All creative people—which is everyone—require commitment and time and courage to grow into their insights.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.