Quotes About Dedication

I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'

People feel that I have overachieved, but I feel that, myself, that I work tremendously hard in the gym. I feel almost I have underachieved a little bit.

The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn't allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple sports helped tremendously in my baseball career. I have the agility of all three combined into one.

I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.

IPL has helped me tremendously.

Being away from the game and just remembering why I love competing and all of that, I think it helped me tremendously.

I've worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans culture.

Apollo Crews is tremendously talented. One of the things that impressed me the most about Apollo is his coach-ability; he wants to improve, he wants to learn, he's got a tremendous attitude and he's eager to do well.

If we have to dig a trench and put our tin hats on at times we will do it and we proved we can do that as well as play.

If your team is in the trenches, you've got to be in the trenches with them.

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

I am going to live and die in the trenches.

I dedicated my career to really working in under-served communities and really just being in the trenches.

Paying to teach in the trenches was like putting my face through a cutout hole at a carnival while a quarterback threw pies at me. At least with a carnival, I'd see it coming.

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today.

I think there's guys who are coming out of college that might not be scorers but have the ability to go down in the trenches and do the dirty work. I think I give those guys a little more inspiration to go out there and work hard.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

I rarely drop the ball, and hopefully that trend continues.

I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.