Quotes About Dedication

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.

From now on, match me with one guy at a time.

I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything

Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.

I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.