Quotes About Dedication

I don't think I ever knew just how great it can feel to push your body past its limits, and running is a great way to do it. In fact, the harder I train, the more awesome the after-effects!

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

I stopped playing video games, I stopped playing other sports, and I just dove head first into wrestling and it's been my passion ever since I discovered it.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

Ever since I was young, I played sports.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

I loved sports, so acting died and it was all sport. But I always used to get in trouble, because after lights out I would sneak out to watch things on TV.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal.