Quotes About Dedication

I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I'll be happy.

I want to be a part of this organization, and I know the fans are a little harsh sometimes, but that's how it is here in New York, and I'm ready for it.

Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

I'm grateful for all the teams that I've played for, the fans, the organizations, the front offices, the list goes on and on.

It's not about the organization, it's about the fighter. So let's put everyone to fight so we are going to know who is the best. It's the next step for the sport. MMA deserves that and all the organizations and athletes deserve that.

I have a great team in Nashville that works so hard to organize my life and stay way ahead of the game. We're just really open and have a lot of communication and dialogue about making it our goal to keep me home as much as possible - as little time away from the kids as possible.

Growing up Mormon, you learn how to be very, very organized, and it's a passionate group. I mean, in that way, it's prepared me very well for Hollywood.

When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.

Here's the thing: I love what I do for the magazine, and I love what I do on television. When you do the things that you love, it's not bad. It's about being very organized.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

Either I'm really into the organizing, or I'm really into the music. As I've been going, I've been able to figure out ways to even it out a little more.

I was a real serious kid, real intense, and there were a lot of things that I was doing by myself I took seriously, like organizing little pieces of paper, cutting out things from magazines, and filing them away.

I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.

I feel every project that I have done in my life, which is acting oriented, has been something that I believed in.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.

When I was young, I originally wanted to be a radio on-air personality. Once I realized I may not be fit for that - I was infatuated with hip-hop - that I still wanted to be a part and give back the community, so I decided to carve my own path and make my own lane.

I'm originally from jiu-jitsu.

When I was playing in Seattle and Orlando, I did a lot of work with the Ronald McDonald House. I've always had a special thing for kids, and I know how important it is for kids to have good role models. They push us to that next level.

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

I've been very proud of a lot of the work I've done in New Orleans.

Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.