Quotes About Commitment

Lying about what you want out of marriage going in because you're afraid you'll lose the relationship if you are honest is one of the worst kinds of fraud you could ever commit.

If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.

Discipline. It means doing what you have to do when you need to do it, whether you want to or not.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. —MAGIC JOHNSON

We all want to win. Every athlete wants to succeed. But the ones who do are those who separate wanting from being willing to make the sacrifice that winning demands.

You can't buy motivation. You can't obtain it from someone else. "Motivation is something nobody else can give you," Joe DiMaggio said. "Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you, and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

Pete Rose said it this way: "What's tough is to go out and work hard on the things that you don't do very well.

As Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic champion figure skater, said, the most important thing is to love your sport. Never compete just to please someone else. "You've got to love what you're doing," hockey great Gordie Howe said. "If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains.

The harder you work the harder it is to surrender. —VINCE LOMBARDI

Rod Carew says he has seen many baseball players blessed with God-given ability who simply didn't want to work. "They are soon gone," Carew says. "I've seen others with no ability to speak of who stayed in the big leagues for fourteen or fifteen years… . You have to want to do the work.

Consistency separates good athletes from great ones. The best athletes win consistently because they think, act and practice consistently.

Be prepared mind, body, and spirit to do battle with everything you have, so when the contest is over you can leave the game behind with no regrets.

Whatever it Takes", suddenly it is no longer a question of whether or not I will achieve my goals, it is only a question of what it will take to achieve it. In my mind, it's a done deal. There is no wondering "if", or "maybe" when you achieve this mindset. All the anxiety and worry about my future dissipates as I know that achieving my goal is inevitable provided that I commit to doing "Whatever it Takes".

He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.

You are what you do and you do what you must

I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, veterans, first responders, and the families that serve alongside them, we can always do a little more.

For Better or for Best

we can choose how we will participate in relationships, we have no choice about whether we will participate in them.

What is the secret of a fulfilling marriage? Hard work and persistence!

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.