Quotes About Dedication

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

Anson Dorrance ... left me a short, encouraging note: "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching.

Each day I attempted to play up to their level... and I was improving faster than I ever dreamed possible.

The Computer Science Lab was a collection of engineers who weighed everything pitilessly against the question: How will this get us closer to our goal? They had committed themselves to developing Xerox's office of the future, and anything that diverted their attention or served an alternative goal had to be discarded or obliterated.

Coach said something to the effect of 'the only thing worse than running is not having something to run for.

Whatever you want to be in life, you're training for it right now.

To me, it was just a matter of, if you want to do something, the only thing that's going to keep you from doing it is giving up," Leary says. "Because we were proof of that. If you just don't quit, you will succeed—that is the bottom line.

But there's something to be said for truly caring. For making a commitment and sticking to it. For having the strength of character to decide what you think is important and then going out and making it happen no matter how hard or crazy or unpopular it might seem.

It's not the instrument that makes the music beautiful - it's the musician.

Remember what John Carlos said: "There is no partial commitment to justice. You are either in or you're out." Trust me: if you're willing to be uncomfortable, you will also feel blessed, if you can see it through and make it to the other side.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

something I loved and trying to do it as well as I possibly could. In the end if I could give you one bit of advice, it would be that: find what you love, and do it as well as you can. Pursue your dream and, even if you never catch it, you'll enjoy the chase. The rest comes down to luck, timing and God: even if you don't believe in him, he believes in you. And when all of that runs out, use the difficulty.

In the end, if I could give you one bit of advice, it would be to find what you love and do it as well as you can. Pursue your dream. And, even if you never catch it, you'll enjoy the chase. The rest comes down to luck, timing, and God, even if you don't believe in Him, He believes in you.

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Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )

It is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.