Quotes About Dedication

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

I feel like if you play basketbal, you should want to improve all the time. You should never feel like you don't need to improve.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

It has been a wonderful five years. I'm excited about the many projects we're working on as we move into year six, and I want to thank everyone for tuning in. We couldn't do it without you!

If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

Right now I'm not fitting into the coach's plans and so I just want to make sure I can do the best I can and improve myself and make sure I get picked.

I always stayed on before and after practice. I just think that if you want to excel at anything, be it basketball, dance or the piano, you need to practice a lot.

If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life?

It boils down to how much do you really believe and want it.

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

A fan can be able to say what he wants, do what he wants - he pays his money.

Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.

I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

Everybody wants to make better music.