Quotes On Sacrifice

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves.

Winning has a price. And leadership has a price. So I pulled people along when they didn't want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didn't want to be challenged. And I earned that right because [other] teammates came after me. They didn't endure all the things that I endured.

If you want to be the best in the world, you have to be willing to sacrifice everything.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.