Quotes About Dedication

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

If this were your first annual review with our company, what would I be telling you right now? A: You'd be thanking me for a job well done and would be explaining how you look forward to continuing to see good work from me. Furthermore, I would anticipate your explaining how you really appreciated my putting in extra time on some key projects and how my creative thinking helped come up with some innovative solutions to existing problems.

You are important enough to invest the time and energy needed for the change you want. Commit to becoming the person you wish to be and carve out the time for what needs to be done!

It seems to me a case of negligence if, after becoming firm in our faith, we do not strive to understand what we believe.

You never finish a book. You only abandon it.

Early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise.

There was pride in the shirt. There was sweat in the shirt. There was blood in the shirt.

Dean Marney has also thrown his hat into the ring after Saturday. The more hats there are in the ring, the harder my job is.

It took me 17 years to get 3000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." —HANK AARON

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

The true friend is the one that's coming in the door while everyone else is going out.

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

use one or both of your pictures

sort of like what Mom says marriage is like. She says it's like a job where you know the end product is worthwhile but sometimes you hate getting up early for it every day.

You can thank us by doing something serious with it

There's a will, there's a way my friend.

Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.

She clearly had the gift. Partly, the gift was just plain, old-fashioned love. Partly, it was a questioning intelligence. Real teachers had a kind of longing, a searching excitement of soul. They wanted to find out things. They didn't settle for the old, easy answers. They lived in their minds more than in the world.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

Years later, in 1987, I wrote a violin concerto for Ben. I knew he loved the Mendelssohn violin concerto, so I wrote it in a way that he would have liked. In his actual lifetime I didn't have the knowledge, skill, or inclination to compose such a work. I missed that chance by at least fifteen years. But when I could, I wrote it for him anyway.

If they employ men to make music, then these men must abandon their work of ploughing, planting, and cultivation.

To lack a constant livelihood, yet to have a constant heart—only a scholar is capable of this.