Quotes About Dedication

I always enjoy a challenging role and I don't have to worry about always looking my best on TV as that comes as part of the package when your acting.

When I was younger I would play in front of crowds as small as 500 in the second division in Belgium, so I know what that's like. It might be easier in terms of pressure, but believe me, I would always prefer to be at a packed Anfield playing against Manchester United. That's why you want to become a footballer.

I fought Chris Eubank for the second time because it was the fight the public wanted to see, and there were 47,000 who turned up at Old Trafford. We packed them in because people knew we gave 100 per cent.

I'm very, very loyal to Steph and the gang at 'Packed Lunch.'

I know Packers fans are invested in the team - even more so than the rest of the country.

Green Bay is a blue-collar community, and it's all about the Packers. I was able to go there, slow down and focus on the game.

I am so blessed and fortunate to be a part of Packers nation.

I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.

The fan base for the Cleveland Browns is more passionate than Green Bay Packers fans.

I do follow the NFL. It took me a while to get back into it, but I do follow it religiously now. Huge Packers and Steelers fan.

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

The best players try to not slow down when they put the pads on.

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

I think any time you can go out and put pads on and practice before the season, I think it's a good sign. It's a good sign.

Whether it's one play in the NFL or 1,000 plays in the NFL, your pads will come off eventually.

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out.

Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.

If I write a page a day, I feel very good about it.

If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.