Quotes About Commitment

One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

I'm in the pursuit of excellence. One foot at a time, one camp at a time.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

The pursuit of justice is all I have ever known.

All my life, I have served and will continue to serve the ANC in its pursuit of the objectives of the National Democratic Revolution.

Footballers have to help each other out. Everybody must give his best in pursuit of common goals - not individual ones. This has been the German approach through our football history.

Don't pursue something because you 'want to be great.' Pursue something because it fascinates you, because the pursuit itself engages and compels you.

Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit of truth.

It's just like, we know how to push ourselves to the max.

I think its naive to think you can push yourself as hard as someone else can push you, but I work really hard on my own. I know my body.

I would push myself so much that in the end I would collapse and I would have to be admitted to hospital, I would pray to God to save me, promise that I would be more careful in future. And then I would do it all over again.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.

With back-to-backs, a lot of games, sometimes you think, 'I've got to take a day off today.' But you have to push through it. The greats did.

I'm just one of those people that, if there's a problem, I want to work through it. Push through it and do everything I can. Anything.

I always push myself to work harder and achieve more in life.

You have to push yourself.

The only plan is trying to push myself the maximum to be the best player I can.

Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.