Quotes About Dedication

I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

chose twenty-three because he hoped to be half as good a player as his brother Larry who wore number forty-five.

You're going to have to do better than that.

Good God, Busara. Simon would have put on a bacon Speedo and jumped into a piranha-infested swimming pool for Kat. You should have given him a heads-up, but it wouldn't have stopped him for a second. - Elvis

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

A career takes more than talent. It takes character

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I focus on one thing and one thing only--that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace -- I'd play anywhere.

I'm chasing perfection.

The problem is not with the faith, but with the faithful

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

I'm weak and useless, but I'll stay by your side

There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions. In fact, it is impossible to develop high levels of literacy without being a dedicated reader, and dedicated readers rarely have serious problems in reading and writing.

SHE MAY BE AN EVIL BITCH, BUT SHE IS MY EVIL BITCH. AND I'LL HAVE NO OTHER

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You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.