Quotes About Dedication

My grandma was raised in Ghana, and she went back there to work, so she could earn money for my mum's education in Nigeria. It's where it all began, and that dedication to education is the only reason I'm here.

The love Nigeria showed me... when I played for them in a friendly, the fans were just crazy. The fans almost eat you up because they love you so much.

I'm proud of being a Nigerian international and am always committed to playing for my country.

'Friday Night Lights' was an incredible show.

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

I used to work with mentally disabled people when I was 18 or 19, changing diapers and catheters. I was working, like, 16 hour night shifts, having to distribute meds and go capture people who would break out of the house. Sometimes they'd have seizures, and we'd have to rush them to the hospital. That was an interesting time, very humbling.

I don't go to nightclubs or discoteque. That's not going to happen. I wear Zegna all the time. Outside of the court, I'm wearing Zegna. That's all I'm wearing.

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

I was training most nights and was missing out. I was coming back from school and wanting to go out with my mates, but I had to go training.

I have a crazy work schedule, I don't eat good food, and I often work through nights, but I am just doing what I love.

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do was finish my education and have my nights free for writing.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

I have busy nights.

For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

I used to spend my nights oversewing dresses for a local dressmaker in order to pay for my school equipment.

56 Nights' one of the best mixtapes ever.

Anytime you can start the season off with a new organization and see all the work they put in - guys in the shop that I don't even know are working late nights.

We need the fans to win games. We need the energy from them to win a lot of games and we need that every night, not just certain nights.

Obviously, there are nights in any job when you don't want to be there, but that's when the pride factor comes in.

Flair and I would work with one another sometimes seven nights a week, and with four weeks in a month, we had to keep changing up the matches with fans following the circuit every night. It would always test me and Ric to do something different.

I've used Nike clubs since I was 13.

I joined Nike because I wanted to be the best female athlete ever.