Quotes About Commitment In Sports

#1. Sport teaches you about commitment and to dedicate yourself. Whether you make it to the top or not, sport gives you great skills that you can use in life.

Jenny Meadows

#2. Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment.

Jim Bridwell

#3. I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

Nancy Greene

#4. You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

Haile Gebrselassie

#5. Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Pat Riley

#7. Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished.

Larry Holmes

#8. Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.

Stefan Kieszling

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

Howie Long

#10. Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.

Vince Lombardi

#11. Prejudice is always dangerous.

Wendy Beckett

#12. My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.

Dan Gilroy

#13. My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea. It is a commitment to sport.

Herbert Hainer

#14. My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

Arthur Blank

#15. People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.

Bill Bradley

#16. Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!

Joyce Meyer

#17. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Sharon Robinson

#18. Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

Tom Brady

#19. A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carol Mann

#20. Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

Pat Riley

#21. I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.

Tom Brady

#22. Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

Donald Johanson

#23. Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.

Chuck Knox

#24. Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

Dave Barry

#25. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

Rocky Marciano

#26. I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

Jill Douglas

#27. Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

Aberjhani

#28. Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

Paul Rankin

#29. Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.

Amy Ruley

#30. I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.

Lynn Jennings

#31. I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

Rory McIlroy

#32. Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.

Brandon Stanton