Quotes About Dedication

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro bono service.

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I'm just thinking about being the best I can be for the team first because that's what comes first.

When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

My days, sometimes, it's just about work. I'm not thinking about taking a picture in the studio, and I don't have the time to stop being creative to stop and post on Instagram. That's not a part of my creative process.

I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.

If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.

When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.

Nobody gets into a band and thinks they're going to have a 30-year career.

My feelings in regards to the national team are simple: If the manager thinks I can be of use, I will be ready for the call.

Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.

To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.

It doesn't matter if it's first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-string snaps - any time you get a snap and get to go out there and practice, you build a database of information.

If I'm going to get up on stage to eat hot dogs, I'm not going to do it to get third or fourth.