Quotes About Commitment

I'm president of my children's day school and have a tremendous passion for education.

It's easy to be a short-term hero. It is very easy for me to get tremendous results very short term, get that translated into compensation, and be off sailing in the Bahamas. But the goal for this company - and it's very difficult to do - the goal is to follow a four- or five-year process.

Serving our district and military families is a tremendous honor, and as our work continues in Congress, I will continue fighting for a strong national defense.

Chris, boy, was he ever resilient, and was he ever someone who would never give up and had tremendous discipline, and he set goals and met them.

It's good to see Graham Alexander back in the game. He was such a tremendous professional as a player so I know he'll give management his best shot.

To play at the highest level requires tremendous effort, concentration and above all, never giving up.

I have so much respect for directors. It's a tremendous amount of pressure; you have to keep steadfast and keep what you know is right.

A lot of times, professional athletes say, 'I'm not a role model; I'm an athlete.' I don't mind being a role model because I know what I've done in order to make it to where I am right now. It's a lot of hard work; it's a tremendous amount of hard work. But in order to be make it to a certain level, everybody knows it's going to take time.

You put a tremendous amount of energy, your whole body and soul into something, and you need to win once in a while. Otherwise, it becomes too hard.

It's a tremendous amount of fans in France that love basketball, that follow it every day even though the games are at like two or three in the morning.

I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.

Being away from the game and just remembering why I love competing and all of that, I think it helped me tremendously.

I've worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans culture.

If we have to dig a trench and put our tin hats on at times we will do it and we proved we can do that as well as play.

If your team is in the trenches, you've got to be in the trenches with them.

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

I am going to live and die in the trenches.

I dedicated my career to really working in under-served communities and really just being in the trenches.

Paying to teach in the trenches was like putting my face through a cutout hole at a carnival while a quarterback threw pies at me. At least with a carnival, I'd see it coming.

I believe that everyone in a company should pitch in to foster a culture of ownership and respect. At KIND, this belief translates to everyone being in the trenches - from team members just starting out to executives who have been with the company for years.

I think there's guys who are coming out of college that might not be scorers but have the ability to go down in the trenches and do the dirty work. I think I give those guys a little more inspiration to go out there and work hard.

I rarely drop the ball, and hopefully that trend continues.