Quotes About Dedication

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

Before starting a fitness program or diet, know why you're doing it. Have specific goals with deadlines and visualize the end result each night before going to bed.

It is worth it to give up all that you now are to be all that you could become.

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.

You give loyalty, you'll get it back. You give love, you'll get it back.

There's very few people go the extra mile - so go the extra mile and give it all you've got.

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.

The most important job you will ever have is your commitment to a promise you made to someone.

Running is my church.

If we succeed without sacrifice, it's because someone sacrificed for us.

If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.

I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.'

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.