Quotes About Dedication

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.