Quotes About Dedication

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

A successful coach is one who is still coaching.

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.

What's tough is being good every day.

Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.