Quotes About Dedication

Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!

You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.