Quotes About Dedication

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

This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.