Quotes About Dedication

In the gym, you get out what you put in. There's no room for excuses, for taking shortcuts or giving half effort.

Most other schools train no-gi part time, or maybe even half the time. We train no-gi all the time.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

I began learning how to dance when I was 3 and a half years old.

I get up in the morning and get to bed at night, and between, I bring equivalent dedication to everything I do, with a horror of the inaccurate and the half-baked.

It all goes back to the players putting everything out on the pitch. They commit to the game, so the support gets behind them straight away. They don't see half-hearted performances, they don't see people that are not running around. They see players competing, putting in the effort and enthusiasm.

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

I've dedicated my life to competitive dancing, so I'd like to pass that on to others. You can't be half-hearted about competitive dancing, you have to be prepared to give your whole life over to it.

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

I think I started lip-synching about halfway through the first day, and it's not as easy as you think it would be. But it's definitely better than a day job.

I've always, for whatever my faults have been, felt like I've never done anything halfway.

I knew that if I were the best in the world, my reality could change. I was always the person who didn't conform to the idea of 'halfway.'

If you don't meet luck halfway with really hard work, luck won't get you all the way there.

I hate to do anything halfway so I leave the guitar alone.

There have been times I worked with directors who lost interest halfway into the film.

When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.

I want to be in the Hall of Fame.

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

My Hall of Fame are my fans.

I make it to the hall of fame. I pay for my due.

For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.