Quotes About Dedication

By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

I've spent most of my life watching fast bowlers - initially as a kid on TV and later in the flesh when I started playing top-level cricket.

Initially it was a journey about one girl who wanted to go to the Paralympics but over the two years it has become something I was doing for everyone else. The reason I wanted to do it so badly was so I could stand here and show it can be done even if you have setbacks.

Initially, when I started going to the gym, I would get bored easily.

I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it.

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so I get sports, and I get the sports atmosphere, the feeling around other athletes, but I never played football.

Before I got injured, football was very easy, I didn't have to work out.

I've been injured where you can't play. But if I'm able to get up and move around, I'm not coming off the field.

I always like to keep busy, I always say if you're not injured then you should fight.

I actually was a competitive gymnast for the first part of my life. From age 6 to 12, I dedicated pretty much everything to that, until I got injured really badly.

Every actor while shooting might have got injured during the shoot, and the same happened with me but I continued with work.

For me, I've wrestled since I was 12 years old, so I've never had time off or been injured.

Acting is one such profession where, unless you are admitted to the hospital, you have to continue to shoot even if you are injured or ill.

My personal aim is to play a lot of games, put in great performances, do my best to help the team. Not get injured, obviously.

My players have to be competitors before footballers. They don't pull out of tackles in training. It's full-tilt and if we pick up injuries, we pick up injuries. They have to give everything on the pitch and leave it all out there.

I've had injuries in the past and I've always said that we earn our money when we're injured, because it's the hardest time. Playing football is the easy part because you're enjoying it.

You get injuries, but football is something you have in your blood, in your heart.

There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.

I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.

Sometimes people fight with injuries and nobody knows, so it's important for the fans to see what we do to - for everything.

I just want to play every game, and when I do this, and I'm healthy with no injuries, then the fans can see the way I play.

I have always loved football! Of course, you have sometimes difficult times with injuries, defeats, etc., but this is part of the sport.

I played until I felt like it. Some have to retire due to injuries or other issues ahead of time. But I played until I was 40 years old.