Quotes About Dedication

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

I'm the guy coming from Juilliard.

Juilliard. It was a brutal and beautiful experience.

Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn.

I've always had a thing about Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, and Imelda Staunton. I'm hoping to follow in their footsteps.

The crowd loves a record, and if they're gonna be standing out there in crazy, blistering heat on the 4th of July, I mean, if they're doing it, I may as well try and give them a record.

We want to play a full year, July to July, because that will mean we've been successful.

I don't want to train for every contest the way I do for the Fourth of July. It would be impossible.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

I want to jump far all the time and go out there and win medals.

People say I don't have a jump shot, so that's what I've been working on.

Only thing that I'm guilty of is taking too many jump shots.

When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.

You try to figure out the best way to throw the shot put, or the perfect way to long jump, and you don't ever get it. You just chip away, chip away, chip away as time goes on.

You don't jump out of an airplane and stop halfway. It's all the way.

Once you land a jump, you put it straight in the program. That's the way I've always been doing it.

With my jump shot, once I get that consistent, I feel like that is going to be a huge advantage for me.

I know I'm always ready when I jump into the ring.

Whenever I jump into the car I always try to do my best.

When you have a passion for something, it makes you excited to jump out of bed each day and go for it.

Some of my team-mates in the Under-18s used to play 'Call of Duty' and they told me I should jump on it. I have played it ever since, for my first one or two years I played it pretty much ever day, I was mad about it.

I don't need to be the fastest or be able to jump highest to be effective or do the right things to help the team.

I don't want to be jumping from team to team.