Quotes About Commitment

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

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.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal.

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

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

BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.

This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.

If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

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.

Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.