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Quotations : COMMITMENT

"Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down."
- David McNally

"God gave me this gift and He can take it away just as quick. I don’t want to tempt him by not practicing."
- Lee Trevino, champion golfer

"Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who is. And one day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage."
- 'Easy' Ed Macauley as told by Bill Bradley

"You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you’re down to your reflexes which means your training. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you’re getting found out now under the bright lights."
- Joe Frazier, former Heavyweight boxer

"Practice without improvement is meaningless."
- Chuck Knox, former football coach

"If you want to get something done, you can’t have a bunch of alternatives. You have to have absolutes."
- Mike Krzyzewski, NCAA Hall of Fame basketball coach

"You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill

"Communicate downward to subordinates with at least the same care and attention as you communicate upward to superiors."
- L. B. Belker

"The day soldiers stop bring you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."
- General Colin Powell

"Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis."
- T. Boone Pickens

"How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever."
- Unknown

"Time is what we want the most, but what we use the worst."
- William Penn

"It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from their followers."
- Bern Nanus

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
- Peter Marshall

"People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice."
- Ted Williams

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
- Vince Lombardi

"If one has not given everything, one has given nothing."
- Georges Guynemer

"The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
- Vince Lombardi

"The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems."
- S.L.A. Marshall

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden, NCAA Hall of Fame basketball coach

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
- Joe Paterno, Penn State Football Coach

"It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."
- Muhammed Ali

"There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There’s no such thing as life in-between."
- Pat Riley

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
- Vince Lombardi

"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."
- Tom Landry

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
- Vince Lombardi

"Each warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing."
- Pat Riley

"You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional."
- Joe Paterno

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on."
- Walter Lippman

"Do something lead, follow, or get out of the way."
- General George Patton

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