Dave Sim Quotes

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' There comes a time in every man's life and I've had plenty of them.

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

You and I won't lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I'm unstoppable.

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.