Quotes About Dedication

Once you look up, and it's Week 14 or 15, and it's crunch time, you can't all of a sudden turn on a switch and say, 'Hey guys, we have to step up and be brothers, be family.' That's stuff that is developed in the offseason, training camp, or throughout the season.

I would not switch Bjorn Bergmann Sigurdarson for any other player in Norway.

Your focus has to switch to being as good as you can be for your club.

One of my strengths is focusing on football, and even in the summer, I try not to switch off too much.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

You're so emotionally connected to the game that it's hard to switch off afterwards. It's a good time to have open and honest conversations about your performance and what you can improve on next time.

When you hit that safe 40-point mark it's very easy for a player to think about his holidays and actually switch off.

Management is all-encompassing. That's something I've learned since starting this job. I find it very difficult to switch off. I can be at the cinema or out for a meal with my wife, and I'm thinking constantly about what my players are doing.

I don't give up on people. I don't have a dimmer switch. It's who I am. Until I am kicked out, I will be with you. I don't abandon people. I just don't.

There is nothing called 'switch on-switch-off' in an actor. We are not machines.

People get confused with athletes, especially ultimate competitors. They think they are the same on and off the field. Once you see me on the field, I am a different person. I have a switch I can flip on and off.

I am professional. If I am on the field, I am 100 per cent focused on that. Off the field, I switch off.

My dad was a baseball coach, and then I switched to softball. Baseball was all I knew until I crossed over. It never seemed like a big deal.

I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and I've been doing that ever since.

It's not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the characters I portray.

When I'm playing football I'm switched off to everything else - it frees my mind.

When I was on the court, I played. When I trained, I trained hard. But as soon as that thing was over, I switched off and enjoyed my life.

It's the little things. That's kind of what I bring to the table in terms of doing things that might not show up in the box score. Diving for a loose ball, or switching out on a guard and getting that big stop, cutting someone's water off if they've made a couple shots.

I have progressed well since switching my training to Loughborough, and I feel I still have another 30% of progress left in me before my peak.

When we go out to train, we work hard, but when we're back in the hotel, you want to chill out. People want to switch off from football because you spend so much time doing it. For me, switching off means playing jokes.

Switching from acting to cricket isn't difficult, because I have represented Delhi in the under-19 category. Plus cricket is in my blood.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

I never thought I'd be an expert at sword fighting, I never thought I'd be an expert in protein powders - I'm close to being an expert in both. It's great!