Quotes About Dedication

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.

I wanted to become good at golf because I saw a lot of really successful people being good at it - and I planned on being successful.

It's almost as if the most successful people don't put too much effort into being so brilliant at what they do, that they're just doing extraordinary things. The truth, however, is they're putting more and more effort into maintaining their levels of excellence.

I got the chance to play the sport that I love, which was football, successfully for 25 years. Life has been great for me.

The captains of industry do not keep on working for the sake of making money, but for the love of completing a job successfully.

If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time.

I have achieved more than I could have ever imagined and feel very privileged to have played for such a long time alongside some of the greats of the English game.

Gian Luca and I have been together for such a long time, we're in it for the long haul.

I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.

When I left Spurs I was one of the best defenders in the world and had done so much for such a long time with ultimately little reward. I practically kept the club up on my own for two years.

I've been in the mix of great projects for such a long time, I know what it takes.

I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.

I tell everybody on the first day of making a movie that if anyone's here to further their career, they should leave. I'm gonna make the movie in such a way that we won't have a career when this movie comes out. Because the people who hold the moneybags are not going to want to share any of that money with us to make the next movie!

I think you should be a fan of something first if you intend to spend your life around it. You're going to have days when things don't go your way at the track. On those days, you just have to realize they happen to everybody in his sport and basically just suck it up.

If you suck, you're gonna suck real bad, and if you play well, it's going to sound really good.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

You can't be named like a sport if you suck at it.

The funny thing about acting is, there's no 'right' way to make it. Some people need to work their butts off, and some don't. They're just naturals. I wasn't a natural. I sucked.

I sucked. It was my first time picking up a basketball. I watched it on TV, but I never knew what to really do with it. I mean, I needed help with everything.

I've always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective.

I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?