Quotes About Commitment

Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end.

I'm just an everyday kind of hero. If the everyday kind saves babies from burning buildings and looks hotter than hell in bunker gear.

I don't trust nobody that don't have my name tattooed on her ass, and then it's iffy.

Marriage: just say no.

In this town, a successful marriage is one that lasts longer than ice.

Marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion.

Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hours--his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle--victorious.

Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

The quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victory.

You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.