Quotes About Dedication

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

I went back and started reading with Thor's first appearance, and my goal is to read all 600-plus issues in a row.

I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training and competing.

Every linebacker that plays in the NFL wants to be a starter.

If I'm going to be a sixth man, I'm going to go for Sixth Man of the Year. If I'm a starter, I'm definitely trying to be a great player either way.

I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.

If I am ever the starter of the Denver Broncos, I want it to be because I earned it.

If the team's winning, I'm going to do whatever I can to help the team, whether that's from third-string role, backup, starter, it doesn't matter. I'm going to do what I can to prepare and help the team.

I will do anything a team asks me to do. If it's to come off the bench, I would impact the game by coming off the bench. If I were to start, I would impact the game as a starter. I would impact the game either way.

My belief is whether I'm the starter, whether I'm the backup, I'm going to show up the same exact way. I'm going to prepare the same exact way, and I'll always be ready to go.

I was a walk-on at Maryland, I had to earn my scholarship and starter spot, and the things that've come after.

Everyone wants to be a starter, that is clear, but the one who makes those decisions is the coach. It is up to us to work hard and be at our best when we are needed.

I hope that I will be the starter and that I'll play important minutes.

I knew when I came here it wouldn't all be easy, that I wouldn't play every game. But my goal was to be a part of Bayern, to be a starter. I want to achieve things here.

My aunt Maxie had a plastic guitar in her closet, and I started playing that, going nuts on it. I went to stay with my dad, and he saw how much I was into it, and I put my first guitar on layaway. It was a Kay Starter Series guitar and Gorilla amplifier.

I've wanted to be a starter ever since I was a little kid, so I wasn't going to give up on that dream.

My dream is eventually becoming the greatest talent to come out of the United States and New York, being a starter, and playing for my country.

I always prepare like I'm a starter. Three-down back.

It wasn't like I came in and was like, 'I'm going to be a starter.' That was never in my head. It was always about, like, 'I can make sure I come and I'm better and I can handle the ball and I can shoot and I can defend. And, if I can do those things, I will play.'

I train every day to be a starter.

My personal expectations are to be a starter, and I'm going to fight to earn that position.

I practice as if I'm one of the starters.

Lacrosse has a special place in my heart after starting my career as a lacrosse player at Penn State.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.