Quotes About Commitment

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

Channel your energy. Focus.

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it.

The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

I am a huge sports fan.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.