Quotes About Dedication

Brother Colm is one of the best coaches who's ever been here in Kenya. He's been, of course, my coach since I started running. He saw me in high school when I was still doing 400, and 200 meters. He decided for me to join his club and we'd been training for one month. That is when he saw me and he thought I could do a good 800.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.

If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.

It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.

I would fight every month. Think about the finances I would have. That would be financial freedom.

I'm greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I'm happy to be busy.

I'm all for one month of going really hard and eating really healthy and boxing every day if you're doing it for, like, one job.

I was working a full-time job but not having anything in my savings account at the end of the month because of my bills and because acting in the beginning costs money.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

One of the things people think about me is that I don't do deadlines. But if you look at all the books I've ever done, they're all sequential every month. There might have been glitches along the way. But almost all of my books appeared sequentially.

People say they start from the bottom. If you want to see someone who's started from the bottom, go and look at my career. My first 10 fights, I think I paid for them myself. I've fought three times in one month.

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

I'm definitely not a monthly guy. Probably never will be. I'm simply in awe of the guys who do monthly books well... hell, in awe of people who do monthlies period.

I'm still in school - I'm home-schooled. I do school every day. I finish in, like, four months.

Like most, I've had an on again, off again relationship with fitness, sometimes beginning every day at the gym only to forget about my membership for months at a time.

My first album was completed in three months.

I would spend about eight months on a song, leaving it alone and going back to it later on. I just kept layering things on, building them up in to epic songs. I let the songs evolve - it's really daunting.

If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.