Quotes About Dedication

When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' But she lived long enough to see the Bulls win all six championships. She would wear all six pendants at the same time. She could barely stand up.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

When you really believe something, you need to stand up for it.

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

I've got to stand up for the sport.

I stand up for the things I believe in.

Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.

Our military personnel sacrifice for us, and we need to stand up for them.

God has allowed me through the BSB to minister in a positive way, encouraging people to stand up for what they believe.

I stand up all four quarters even when I'm not playing.

The goal for me is to stand up for the word of God which is so important to me. It means more to me than what I have.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

I've trained with some of the best when it comes to stand up.

As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.

I have this fantasy of relaxing and doing nothing. But I'm obviously very passionate about stand-up comedy. I mean, I keep doing it. So I must be really into it.

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and clubs for over 30 years. That's a long time.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

I stand squarely with our law enforcement officers who don bullet-resistant vests as part of their standard equipment and leave their home each day not knowing if they will return.