Quotes About Dedication

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

I hope I work effectively, but I never feel I have exhausted what I should be doing... I believe we have a responsibility to be a good influence on others.

To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football.

Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.

The Steelers have influenced everything I've done as an adult.

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'

From when I first started listening to music, M. S. Subbulakshmi has been one of my biggest influences. She poured her heart and life into everything she sang.

I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.

Sports is a unique thing in our country. It's so influential. It's almost like a sacrament for religion.

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.

I think I've always felt that I want to do a very specific type of work and I've made informed decisions. You know, hopefully be part of a quiet movement or revolution.

I was lucky to get good coaches and infrastructure that I needed. To become a champion, it is not just a few months' practice: it takes years to make a champion.

I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.

I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.

Since childhood, I was ingrained into sports. It plays an important part in my life.

I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.

Football is something so ingrained in me, something I love doing and definitely something I want to do.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making movies, to the Film Society, to just being in a film world. It's a life that I wanted to inhabit. I think everyone has the opportunity to do that in this world - it's just, are you gonna work for it, and how much does it mean to you?

I feel acting needs professional training. Very few actors are inherently talented.

The initial desire to train at an elite level started when I was probably 12.

Initially, when you start working out, it takes at least six months for the results to show.