Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
I always loved training to get fit, make all those sacrifices that you do, but it just wasn’t there after Pacquiao.
When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent’s sacrifices, and to the United States of America.
Hopefully, young people will see that you can be young and make the sacrifices to follow your dreams.
There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she’s raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn’t until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.
And that’s my honour, that’s what my goal is, to always keep my mum’s name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.
I don’t want to constantly be making sacrifices. It feels like it’s really difficult for the films I dream about making to turn up.
I’m thankful because all the hard work and sacrifices were worth it in the end.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the journey of my parents – just seeing the sacrifices they’ve made to allow me to do what I do. How much of a difference their sacrifices have made through the generations.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
It’s an honor to step onstage and celebrate the service and sacrifices of our soldiers.
All of us would like to have our children and their grandchildren grow up with at least the level of prosperity that we had. In the U.S., we seem to be very selfish because the older generation is not making the sacrifices.
I always thought we ought to recognise the blood, sweat and tears – and the sacrifices in being away from home – of former England players, and that current players should know what has come before.
Tevez is an absolutely world-class player. But what surprised me more than anything is the way he sacrifices himself to help the team. He works like a mule!
If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you’re growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it’s very difficult. It’s not easy, but you have to train hard, you have to live right, and you have to rest.
People want to make sacrifices but they don’t want to be sacrificed.
There is good in everything; it’s just how you choose to look at it. Everything that’s worth it has a price. For me to be a model – I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in?
The United States stands on the foundation of generations of servicemen and women who gave their lives to defend their country. Their sacrifices created the most free and prosperous country in the history of the world.
I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren’t well – known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.
Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
Nobody’s more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.
It’s funny, we make all these sacrifices for our nation, but are we really getting looked after properly at the end of the day?
I was just grateful for the fact that I was able to repay my parents for their sacrifices throughout my career.
My family has been through so much and made so many sacrifices for my brothers and sisters.
My life is so full of sacrifices.
Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.
I’m a married man and I’ve got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Being an actor and a successful one at that, is the stuff fairy-tales are made of, as you reach unimaginable heights. But it is a tough world and most people do not realise the personal sacrifices made to get to these lofty positions.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
You have to make sacrifices if you want to do what you want to do in this world. If you really want something you make the sacrifice. If you don’t, you don’t.
He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.
I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its own wasteful expenditures.
The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a symptom of mismanagement in just five minutes or in a week. It will involve significant sacrifices and pain, and I doubt that in India there is the political will to face the music.
It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.
Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
The mother who stays home instead of working sacrifices her aspirations and career to ensure that her child is well taken care of.
I was 10 years old when my father was assassinated in 1968. Then, I had some sense of the sacrifices and hardships required of the families of a leader who was constantly in the news.
And the reason I came to IBM was I think – I always say at a really early age, I learned you’ve got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.
There’s a lot of sacrifices I’ve made in this life, in my athletic career.
Street Runner’ is a personal song about the sacrifices I made to pursue this career that I have now. All while never forgetting about the family and loved ones I’m doing it for.
There are three rules for being in the Paper Route Illuminati. Rule number one: get the money first. Rule number two: don’t forget to get the money. How do you make that money? You can’t make money without making sacrifices.
While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.
Thanks to my mother’s sacrifices, I was able to attend one of the best schools in Chicago.
I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits. I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.
The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world’s bulwark of liberty.
Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
I am grateful for the sacrifices our veterans have made to defend our freedom and prosperity.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one’s power to those humans who deserve it.
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
In cinema, the hero is not the one who sacrifices their body always, but the person who sacrifices their heart. They allow their heart to break so everyone else can stay intact.
