Quotes About Commitment

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

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

You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

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.

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

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.

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

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.

My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.

Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.

Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.

Morality is not a spectator sport.

I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.