Quotes About Dedication

If you're in the NFL for more than five minutes you see that you can be here today and gone tomorrow. That's why I played the way I did. I think that's why I worked hard to not miss a game, fight through injuries and all that stuff because when it's gone, it's gone.

You manage your injuries if you're serious about fighting.

Injuries are part of the job.

I can remember being at Gillingham playing in the fourth division ringing up other people I knew at clubs to see what team they would play, if they had injuries. Or you would ring a press man you knew in that area.

I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.

I give everything I have every time I take the ball. With that, I also know that there will always be a risk of injury when playing this game that I love.

Football was a natural thing for me, and with no injuries or injury history that would stop me from training, I just enjoyed coming in every day and playing; then it was taken away from me.

You never want to get injured, of course. That's just not what you do, but in the scheme of things 12 years of professional fighting and having to sit out nine, ten months for an injury is not that bad.

I've played lots of games carrying an injury, but people don't value what I do for Barcelona.

No matter what the circumstances are in our business - travel, politics, injury - you got to be in the game. And to be in the game, you got to work hard, and you have to know your craft.

I was very lucky that I never had any serious injury. But it was the love and passion for the game that got me playing for so long.

I had that small injury on my ankle, but I know that I am not playing like I used to play and like I have to play. So I have to keep working and try to play much better.

But I would like to play for sure until I'm 35, if I'm injury free.

You have to play injury time like the 90 minutes.

I've got that personality where I've always been determined. As a dancer, I was constantly improving and perfecting. I guess it's innate.

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.

My job is to be ready, to be ready to pitch, however that is, however many innings that is, I need to be ready for that. I need to go in and do my job.

As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.