Quotes About Dedication

If the cause is worthy the cost is irrelevant!

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

If a runner is scoring the winning run in a game (because it is the last half of the last inning of the game and his run will put his team ahead), the batter in that play must also touch first base. The batter cannot give up running because he thinks his team has already won.

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

them. Their commitment to doing a good job and their belief that their work was a reflection of their character stuck with me throughout my professional career.

Through divorce, death, and bankruptcy, lost jobs and lost boyfriends, the women of the Denver Roller Dolls are there at the rink four times a week beating each other up—and building each other up.

be here teaching you, I could be home sitting on my comfortable

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. - Ty Cobb

Five years and 250 mice later, she concluded that the sixty-fifth attempt was her keeper, with the best combination of Down-like qualities, even including, incredibly, some of the distinctive facial characteristics associated with the disease, and the same slightly uncoordinated gait.

and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth the playing.

I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."  -- Peter Drucker

You must determine the price that you will have to pay to achieve success, and then get busy paying that price." - H.L. HUNT (TEXAS OIL TYCOON)

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built.

Discipline is the key to unlocking your full potential.

If you wait for inspiration to write, you're not a writer. You're a waiter.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

In the book The Dip, Seth Godin explains the importance and benefits of becoming the best in the world at what you do. As Godin explains in The Dip: "The rewards are heavily skewed, so much so that it's typical for #1 to get ten times the benefit of #10, and a hundred times the benefit of #100.

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.

Stick with me, Miss Lofton. I'm locked, loaded and ready.