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Quotes About Passion

There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
~ Michael Phelps
I give 110 percent, and that's in practice and every game and everything.
~ Terry Rozier
I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.
~ Joe Namath
Fighting is not what I do - it's who I am. It's what I was meant to do, what I was meant to be. I knew that right after my first MMA practice.
~ Jon Jones
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
~ Geddy Lee
All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.
~ Jimmy Chamberlin
When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
~ Herbie Hancock
I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.
~ John Zorn
I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.
~ Ken Leung
I love cheeseburgers, really good Italian food, and really good Mexican food. I look the way I look because I've practiced a lot.
~ Eric Stonestreet
When you've practiced hard and know you've really worked for it it's more enjoyable.
~ Judd Trump
I wasn't obsessed by magic. People say, 'How you can you claim you practiced eight hours a day and weren't obsessed?' Well, people go to a job they don't even like for eight hours a day; it's not obsessive if it's something you like.
~ Ricky Jay
I like art; if I could just draw pictures all day, I would, but I can't; I'm horrible. I practiced at it, still didn't get better - gave it up. I'm good with words, though, so I write music, poetry; sometimes I just journal in my phone.
~ Iman Shumpert
I am someone that is very competitive. When I'm on the field, I compete. When I'm practicing, when I'm in meetings. I'm a competitor in everything.
~ Tim Tebow
I love football, and I love practicing.
~ Derrick Henry
I'm used to practicing. I'm used to the schedule. That's kind of what I was born to do. That's what I've been doing my whole life.
~ Chris Bosh
First, I started to play the organ. I did that until I was 11. From the age of 11 to 13, I gave up music entirely. And then at 13, I picked up the guitar, and after one and a half years, I started practicing intensively. I began playing in rock bands, and it was there that I discovered that the music I liked to write was always instrumental.
~ Ramin Djawadi
I've been in love with basketball from the moment I shot my first shot, hanging out with my father. When I was a kid I would stay in the gym waiting for my dad to finish practicing. I was just shooting.
~ Danilo Gallinari
I like practicing law.
~ Bill Janklow
I enjoyed practicing law.
~ George J. Mitchell
I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to me. There's a lot of talent there.
~ Daya
My father was a studio musician, played for a lot of people like Frank Zappa and a lot of R&B bands, and was always gone doing that. Then when he was home, he was practicing. And so I always saw it, and I always wanted to do what he did.
~ Synyster Gates
My dad put up a basket on my street, and I was practicing every day. It was just nuts. But I miss it. Whenever I see a ball, I get itchy!
~ Elsa Hosk
I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once in awhile.
~ Scott Borchetta