Quotes About Commitment

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

I stopped playing video games, I stopped playing other sports, and I just dove head first into wrestling and it's been my passion ever since I discovered it.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

If you're not on your 'A' game in our workouts every day, you're going to get absolutely smoked.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

When you settle for "vanilla" objectives such as "increased clarity," or "more confidence," or "higher commitment" (which I call "human resources objectives" because they are so weak and nonmeasurable)

Love is a better master than duty.

When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn't been one big decision.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.