Quotes About Dedication

The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

I've never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to become the best

Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.