Quotes About Commitment

I have three tank tops which I wrung terribly, fixed them many times. I had people rip them in the ring and swear at them, and I'd fix them.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

I study Torah all the time.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

There is nothing worse for a bowler than knowing you cannot give your all. If you try to, you can mess yourself up for the future, so you are torn between that and protecting your body. You simply cannot do both.

I played almost two years with a torn meniscus.

I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.

I personally want to be in Toronto.

Bringing a championship to the city of Toronto and the country of Canada has been one the best things I've done so far in my career, and I'll push for that goal every single year I play this game.

For me, it's always been about Toronto. I love it here. My family loves it here. My wife loves it here, which is important.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Really, the amount of work I do on a project, I will torture myself.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don't really give a toss whether they're playing or not because they're getting paid anyway.

You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.

At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.