Chapter 5. COMMITMENT

 

Winning teams pay the price.

Failure is not an option.

 
 --Gene Kranz, Apollo 13 Mission Control Flight Director[50]
 

You've got to use the immense energy that exists in the company, the immense desire to please, to win, to achieve . . . this is how we do it, by hook or crook we'll get it done . . . there's not an I can't do it factor, there's always a way to do it.

 
 --Jackie Stewart, Team Principal, Jaguar Racing[51]
 

To be a winner one must be totally committed . . . Total commitment means being willing to do whatever is necessary to become successful. One must be willing to work hard, to push themselves physically until it hurts . . . To be a winner one must be willing to make sacrifices . . . If you want to be a winner you ...

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