Quotes About Dedication

I have the best and most loyal fans in the world, and they are used to connecting with me since the very beginning.

The fans have been an enormous influence on my career. Playing shows around the world and connecting with them is such a big inspiration in my life.

I believe when you work hard, even if you are a mediocre actor, the audience connects to you.

I'm a Telecaster connoisseur, and I love my Teles. I have one from almost every year since the very beginning, in 1950. I'm so obsessed with them.

Making it to the NBA is a big goal in my life, and one day I hope to conquer it.

We try to do music with a conscience. We'd never look back and say, 'We are embarrassed or ashamed.' It paid off for us.

Conscious people fully know who is serving them selflessly and who is trying to create anarchy.

I was conscious of vocalists from an early age.

My kids are all conscious that they have to prove themselves for who they are. I'm happy for them to do anything they want as long as it's their passion and they work hard.

I loved my work, and it was a conscious decision to give my best all the time.

Winning the Ballon d'Or is the consequence of your work.

I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

I'm involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I'm passionate about animals.

There aren't a lot of cover bands that do Boston material or do it well, and the reason for that is that they are hard to play. So we put a lot of work into it. The musicians that I've managed to surround myself with after all of these years are individuals who really excel at what they do.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

Sometimes there aren't enough hours, but I have a really strong team, and I surround myself with good people, and they help me out a lot. I wouldn't be here without them.

Have respect, hard work, faith and dedication, all these things. No matter what environment you're in, they should keep you strong. Knowing this, I surround myself with people who have similar beliefs. People who don't let me forget who I am or where I come from.

You got to surround yourself with the strongest in the world, the strongest training partners and the best people. That's what I do.

When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don't want to do it any more, when you think it's hard.

There's always people trying to do something to make a quick buck. But, if you plan on the long game, you can essentially guarantee success if you're willing to put in the work and if you surround yourself with the right team.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

I believe that I've improved a lot as a player and a person, because being surrounded by great players on a daily basis helps your development out on the pitch.

Right from the start of my career I was surrounded by people like Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and Graeme Smith, who gave 100 percent in every performance.