Quotes About Dedication

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.

I did start wrestling after I moved to Iowa, I think in the seventh grade. It's really a part of the Iowa culture so it's hard not to do it if you like sports.

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

I think racing is a sport that either your in or your out. Its either you are with the pack or you are off the pack.

Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and to have a chance to race at the highest level.

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen.

Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games

I think the sport needs the help to continue to motivate athletes.

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers

I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.