Quotes About Dedication

Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

Intent on prayer, she has a dumb girl's sweet piercing way of putting her whole body into one thing at a time.

Nonetheless Princess Victoria and Prince Christopher remained

Without Obsession, Life Is Nothing

La vida no vale nada si no tienes una obsesión.

If you are thinking about making some adjustments in you life to allow you to help change the world, my heartfelt recommendation is not to spend too much time thinking about it. Just dive in.

If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

Little things make the big things happen

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

The goal in life is just the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That's what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.

Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.

If a player appeared to be taking it easy in practice, I told him, Don't think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

there are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He told me that he always insisted on two things above all else in his players: That they were always trying to improve and always willing to put the team above themselves. If they weren't willing to do those things, he didn't want them at UCLA.

The teams that compete at the highest level love the thrill of the contest. They may have winning in their heads, but they have a love for the effort and struggle in their hearts.

I've always believed that hustle can make up for a lot of mistakes.

will do the best I am capable of doing today to bring out my best tomorrow.

You will find that success and attention to details, the smallest details, usually go hand in hand, in basketball and elsewhere in your life.

never dreamed about winning a national championship. It happened before I even thought it was possible. What I was dreaming about each year, if you want to call it that, was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be.

Condition Your Team to Love the Struggle.