Quotes About Commitment

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

If it's to be, it's up to me.

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Coming from dance, I feel acting is - I'm not going to say easy, because it's not. But the dance world is more hard-core.

Those players really believe in him.

It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.

Most people get an appointment at a beauty parlor... I was committed!

Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.

You can't take no breaks.

Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

The only purpose of starting is to finish

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.