Quotes About Dedication

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

I am a huge sports fan.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.