Quotes About Dedication

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

I have been drawing all my life.

If you want to run for president, you better be an athlete. It's 24/7. It never ends. You give up your personal life completely and you have something of a chance to be shot.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

In my career, whether it's a big or a small movie, when I've worked on something for a long time, like [Ivan] Drago in Rocky IV, they start to take on a life of their own.

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.

I just write songs, I make music, and I have several times over reinvented my life in order to keep making music and just make music all day. I don't know. It's just what I have to do.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.

Take time to determine the way you will live your life. But once you know the way you should go, let nothing distract you from your path.

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.

I treat every time I walk on the stage like it's the performance of my life.

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

Life is too long to know C++ well.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.