Quotes About Commitment

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

Anson Dorrance ... left me a short, encouraging note: "The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when nobody else is watching.

The Computer Science Lab was a collection of engineers who weighed everything pitilessly against the question: How will this get us closer to our goal? They had committed themselves to developing Xerox's office of the future, and anything that diverted their attention or served an alternative goal had to be discarded or obliterated.

Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs." -Jaina Solo

Coach said something to the effect of 'the only thing worse than running is not having something to run for.

Whatever you want to be in life, you're training for it right now.

To me, it was just a matter of, if you want to do something, the only thing that's going to keep you from doing it is giving up," Leary says. "Because we were proof of that. If you just don't quit, you will succeed—that is the bottom line.

constant friction between what you see, and what you want to achieve and things that you know are right. That rub is what creates the pain and the emotion and then there's the hope that maybe you can overcome it, make it happen. It's the same politically and personally—to me it's all one issue because the same problems keep coming up over and over again—lack of commitment, lack of caring.

Men come and go but bills are forever.

In the lean world," he grinned, "if the student hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught." "And what if I train them and then they leave?" "What if you don't and they stay?" he replied.

Weber also saw that a bureaucratic world contained risks. It produced increasingly powerful and autonomous bureaucrats who could be spiritless, driven only by impersonal rules and procedures, and with little regard for the people they were expected to serve. Weber famously warned that those who allow themselves to be guided by rules will soon find that those rules have defined their identities and commitments.

But there's something to be said for truly caring. For making a commitment and sticking to it. For having the strength of character to decide what you think is important and then going out and making it happen no matter how hard or crazy or unpopular it might seem.

We are forever, right?" Melissa Said. "Absolutely forever. There is nothing that could ever take me away from you," I said with more certainty than I'd said anything in my life.

Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.

Remember what John Carlos said: "There is no partial commitment to justice. You are either in or you're out." Trust me: if you're willing to be uncomfortable, you will also feel blessed, if you can see it through and make it to the other side.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.