I was never the most talented, I was never the fittest, I was never the fastest – but once I got out there I was the most committed! – Wina

If you don’t make a total commitment to whatever you’re doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It’s tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.
- Lou Holtz

Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
–Grace Lichtenstein American Writer & Editor

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of commitment left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” (Slightly adapted from Erma Bombeck’s original quote.)

Winners are men who have dedicated their whole lives to winning. – Woody Hayes

Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.- Charles Buxton

If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you’ve got-your everything.
- Duke P. Kahanamoku

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
- Swami Sivananda