Quotes About Dedication

Literally, from the moment I wake up from the moment I go to sleep, I'm just working without distraction. It's just the way I'm wired.

Some players can just act like 'whatever' off the field and then play amazing. Not many, but some. I just wasn't wired like that.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Care more than others think wise.

A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty driven by hard work and love working with teams. What people discount is, I grew up in a very small blue-collar town in Massachusetts and have basically scrapped my way career wise.

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn't a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.

Skill wise, there's nobody that's gonna outwork me.

I understand my job and what the job is and what has to be done basketball wise. I do that 24/7 and it's a huge priority for me, but I cannot be in this job and not try to affect the youth of Africa, or the youth around the world, even. Help other people in some kind of way.

I need to continue to be wise, be efficient and prepared for every game that I play leading up to the Olympics.

I could've given up on music and stuck with my day job. But I chose to work hard and articulate my sound. I look back on that time and I think to myself: I used it wisely.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

My wish is to be known only thru my work.

Every wish, every dream, every idea comes to existence only through blood, sweat and sacrifice.

Fighters are my comrades. There are a lot of them with great personalities, they're great fighters, and they should be lifted up a little bit more. I just wish MMA would do that.

I am very happy that I have great fans. What I can tell them is they must work on themselves; they should just have fun at what they do. I wish them well with everything, and if they really enjoy what they do, then I think they can go a long way. I will be rooting for them to achieve that.

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

We wish we had known that success takes time, that it's gonna require an unimaginable amount of hard work, that you're going to have to pretend you know what you're doing even when don't, and that as cheesy and cliche as it may sound, following your heart is actually... the key to everything.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.