Quotes About Dedication

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

Whenever I'm out on the basketball court, I lace up and just hoop. Whether it's in summertime, at practice, in the games, playoffs, every time I step out on the basketball court, I approach it the same way.

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period.

If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.

There's only three movies I've been involved with in my whole life that I really care about. 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' was one, and 'Princess Bride' was the second, and 'Hearts in Atlantis' is the third.

With 'Half Nelson,' we went to Sundance and then we just bam, bam, bam, festival, festival, festival, festival and then we released in August.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

When I start a book, it's every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It's every day, because if I stop one day, I'm afraid of losing the book and losing the energy.

I had been released by Southampton and was back playing Sunday League football when I signed for Bournemouth. I grew to love the club.

My family prayed a lot, but we didn't really go to church. On Sunday, my mum and dad used to always tell me to read the Bible. That was important for me growing up, and I still do that every morning. It's something that is part of my routine, and I do it every day, whether it's a normal game or a big one.

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.

I go to an acting class every Sunday.

I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

I'm not bragging, but just going Sunday to Sunday, it will be a real rare game when I don't catch a pass.

You can't have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.

Every Saturday and Sunday, when the other guys were out having a good time at the mall, I was at home working in the garden.

I knew I loved playing bluegrass, so I'd end up down there on Sunday nights at the bluegrass jam.