Quotes About Dedication

I can't keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It's not me. I want to be playing football.

When I make a commitment to someone, it is for the smooth road and the rocky road.

I know I play with a lot of passion, but from the outside looking in, people say, 'He's passive. Doesn't play hard.' And others say, 'It just comes easy to him. He's smooth.' That's just how I play. Always been the same person.

I've gone through the years and I've written stuff for Jules that has never gotten published, but I thought I'd write her smooth R&B bedroom song.

I don't ever train half-pipe except for the short training sessions during events, and because of that, I have a really hard time consistently putting my runs down smoothly.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.

You've got to focus on getting better at one thing at a time, every single drill, every single snap.

I've been through some adversity where I didn't have football. Having it back gives you an appreciation for every snap you can take. I'm just blessed to have that opportunity.

I'm about business. I'm going to handle business like a professional. Aside from that, I'm going to give you everything I've got on every snap.

If I have to play every snap for us to have a chance to win, I'm going to do that.

It's not a goal of mine to only play 45 percent of snaps. It's to be on the field for every single play.

When I come into a camp, a team, I look to be the best player every snap.

Making every snap, every play, every rep count. I think, once you do that, the good things, the stats, they come along with it.

Some people think a series like 'Mayberry' is a snap, but nothing in this world is a snap, unless you want it to be.

Well, every down is important and every snap in the game is important. We try to let our players know that.

It may sound kind of brash but you really do have to treat it like just another job. It could be over tomorrow, and if you invest too much of yourself in, 'Hey I am the show and the show is me,' you'll get snapped hard.

I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.

Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got second chair, and played snare in that drum line for three years.

On the first album, it was me and a producer in a basement going though hundreds of snare drum sounds to find the right one.

I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.

What's interesting was with all the shows I did on Broadway, I was either the dance captain or the assistant choreographer - I sort of worked my way up to that kind of thing - and I always was interested in more than just the dancers and the numbers. I would always sneak into the room and watch the scene work.

If people sneak into my show, that's a sign of a good show, you know? If people want to risk getting in trouble with the law to come see you play music, that's a sign you're doing something right.

I'd sneak out and work on my game at midnight. The neighbors would call and say, turn the lights off. I went from the worst player to the first guy off the bench to the best player on my ninth-grade team, and then it took off.