Quotes About Commitment

I'm a speed skater. That's who I am, in my heart.

I kind of have one speed that I know, and that's to go as hard as I can.

A lot of the people I know, they don't train like that. They do a lot of quick stuff, just speed drills. But I run long distance. I've always been like that, though, even when I was in high school. That's just how I train myself.

It's hard to criticise Ronaldo. When we come back from an away game at 4 A.M., he is one of the players that goes straight to the training complex to jump in cold water to accelerate the speed of his recovery. He is an example to follow.

Speed is something I always worked on really hard.

I only know one speed.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

I won't be cycling to work any time soon. It's too dark when I leave home at 4am, there's too many speeding drivers and helmet hair wouldn't look good on air. But I still want to do it.

I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I just don't write.

I've already promised that I want to end my career where I started it, as a way of thanking those who gave me the chance to make my name in football. I want to have a spell there before I retire, but one that's enjoyable for me and for them, too.

We had a large spell in 1985-86, but we would have had to move to the States and be available all the time, so we chose to remain a European act.

There was only a little spell at Wigan, when I first signed there, when I wasn't in the team every week.

There was a little spell when we had no real leadership at the top but we've always had quality people here, lovely characters to whom Sunderland means an awful lot.

That was mandatory in the contract with Aaron Spelling, that if you were contracted to do one of his shows, you had to do any other shows that were his.

I decided that I wanted to spend my career fighting inequality rather than making myself more comfortable.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

If you're going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

The family farm plays such a big part in my life and I genuinely love going back there. In some ways I'd like to spend every day there, but there would be a big hole in my life if I didn't stay involved in cricket.

You cannot take shortcuts. We've shown that we can spend more on ingredients, not less, and charge a fair price.

After two good and interesting years I decided to put an end to my duty at FIFA, mainly to be able to spend more time with my family in Amsterdam.

We spend so many hours a day - even if we're not physically in the office - working, thinking about work, and planning and setting up and organizing with work, even with our families.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.