Quotes About Dedication

We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.

I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

You never start out being a star.

I can't promise you will succeed if you stick with your start-up. What I can promise is that if you give up, you won't possibly succeed.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

I give credit to my mom for inspiring and encouraging me to take sports seriously. She was a professor of biochemistry and at the age of 60 when she retired she started trekking.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

I started my career without fans.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

When I started playing as a boy, a lot of people were asking, 'If you don't make it, what are you going to do?' But in my head, I was always repeating to myself, 'I'm going to become a football player.'

I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!

Let's go, champ' started as a way to motivate myself.

I've been acting for a long time - I started when I was 12.

Finishing what you started is important.

For me it all started with two turntables and a mixer.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.