Quotes About Dedication

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.

I love this sport and I absolutely love the support you guys give me; and I will continue to do it until I can't.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!