Quotes About Dedication

Without discipline, Religion would be impossible

Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, a thirteenth century scholar, said that it is possible for anyone to have sincerity in what one does and in what one believes, irrespective of creed.

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course

baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course...

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I tell young people -- including my granddaughter -- there is no short cut in life. You have to take it one step at a time and work hard. And you have to give back.

The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play .

The day I become content is the day I cease to be anything more than a man who hit home runs.

What I've learned at close quarters is that excellence, year after year, is exhausting.

Faith's table is always laid, whether the invited guest sits down or stays away with a thousand excuses and pretexts.

We have seen year after year the passion you have for music, and the way you have always been incredibly passionate fans, even though Hanson has not always been the coolest thing to be into.

Hanumant Deshmukh

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

On love I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.

The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.