Quotes About Dedication

It's much better to play the guitar a half hour a day, every day, than not practice for a week and then jam for five hours one day.

My mom is from Jamaica, and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep.

I want to be the LeBron James of baseball.

Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.

Make no mistake - LeBron James was carrying the Cavs, but Dellavedova was the cinematic element: hustle personified.

James McAvoy is one of my favorite actors of all time.

Some people might say I'm old at 28, but I look at someone like James Milner. He's 32 and playing like he is 25 or something.

When the lights in the arena turn on, I'm Mickie James all the time.

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you're going to do the job you always do, it ends up being a 'Bond' movie and a sense of what it is to put music to James Bond and to honor the music that exists.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

The buzz we had in 2000-01 was unique. We played 34 matches between January 1 and May 19, but lost only four.

I started training in January in 1993 and my first match was in April of that same year.

I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.

When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn't miss a beat.

I feel that Japan is like my second home; this is where I want to fight.

I watch Dragon Gate, New Japan, NXT, AEW. I love the Lucha Bros, The Young Bucks. Mainly I watch the guys in the shows that I'm on.

I was going to go back to doing the indies more often and possibly working more of a full-time schedule in Japan. If I didn't get the chance to go to WWE, that would have been a bummer to me, but I was just going to continue to do the best I could and continue my legacy.

I'm always happy when I get a chance to go over to Japan just because I feel like, if I can have good matches with the Japanese and show them that at this point in my career I'm still willing to go out there and put it on the line, I feel like it's a positive step in my career.

Japanese people can feel some attachment in what they are making, whether it is a car or a TV or a computer.

I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.