Quotes About Commitment

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.

I definitely don't ever plan on compromising, and if that means I'm rebellious, then so be it. I'm all for it.

If they need me to score 30, I can go do it. If they need me to just rebound and defend, I can do that. I can play this game, just in case people forgot. You just carry that chip on your shoulder, and you go out there and do what I was put on this Earth to do.

The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

It's not just passing, I gotta play defense, I gotta rebound, I gotta talk, I could have 40 and not talk and not bring energy. But it's just trying to have an all-around game, just trying to be the leader I can be, get the pace up.

If the team needs to score, I'm going to score. If the team needs me to rebound, I'm going to rebound. Play defense, I play defense.

I just see the ball and I go for it. It's wanting to make a winning play for the team and get a rebound.

I'll dive on loose balls. I'll get the winning rebound, hit the winning shot. I'll do whatever it takes to win a game.

I gotta defend, I gotta protect the rim, I gotta rebound, I gotta set good picks for the guys, finish on offense, and I think that is not going to change much.

Money comes, and money goes. I just want to win games. I could care less how much money is riding on a rebound.

Everybody knows I'm not on the floor because I'm great scorer or free throw shooter. It's because I'm out there to defend and rebound.

I've seen a rebuild, and I've seen how quickly things can turn around when guys buy in.

Our job and commitment is to rebuild Ericsson to be successful long-term.

If being recalled is the price for keeping one's promises, then so be it.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Faithful attendance at Church meetings brings blessings you can receive in no other way.

We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.

Success demands sacrifices. I believe it's a small price to pay for the adulation and love one receives.

When you start your bobsled career at 30, a time when most are settling down into their 'real careers' and many are getting married, you can imagine the barrage of questions and the look of, 'You're doing what?' that you receive.

I do receive some offers for live-action, but I'm not really that interested. It's not something you can just try out and give it a go.

You have teams on and off the field. You have your team off the field in terms of your family, friends, and people that you work with, and then you have your team on the field. You have to give to receive and be there for people and hope that they do the same for you.