Quotes About Dedication

I've worked since I was in second grade.

I've played this game since I was in second grade, and there's nothing more important to me than playing football.

I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.

In sixth or seventh grade, my teacher assigned me to write and sing a song. I remember sitting at the piano in my living room, trying to get that song perfect. That was the moment I realized I really love doing this.

I didn't do any football stuff when I was a kid... Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That's all I did. I played football starting in seventh grade. As I got older, I started playing a little bit more. Then in high school, I really fell in love with it.

My family's been coming to my games since I was in grade school.

Since I've been in fourth grade, all I've known was basketball.

I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.

I've been doing music since sixth grade.

I made good grades in school.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

Being an actor is like being a student, and I plan to get top grades.

I knew I had to get my grades so that I could focus on football.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

When you relentlessly work, you gradually get accepted.

I entered the film industry as a background dancer and then gradually rose step by step. Now I am a judge and a filmmaker, but amongst everything, my personal favourite continues to be dancing, as it is what has led me to the rest.

I'm working my way into acting gradually - I don't want people to think I'm just swanning in there.

It's not like at university where you graduate. Every cyclist must start again. At the end of the season you know if you are good or not.

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

When I was about to graduate, I asked myself, 'What could you do every day and never get sick of?' My answer was really simple: Make cookies.

I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.