Quotes About Dedication

I remember when I was in Mid-South and they used to tape interviews every Wednesday morning, and I wasn't required to go to the interviews because I was a rookie and I wasn't cutting any interviews - I was a curtain jerker. But I went every Wednesday anyway because I was going to watch those guys and I was going to glean from them.

You have your heart on your sleeve when you play games, but playing for your country is special, you dream about it as a wee boy.

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.

Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.

Respect and consistency, as hard work during the week is the only way to earn your place.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

I watch a lot of movies. I've watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once a week. Always - it was a must. So I think that influenced me a lot to be an actor.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do.

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

I've been doing a lot of work with my brilliant trainer Pat Manocchia, who has a gym called La Palestra. He's trained me for every big show I've done, every demanding 8-show week role that requires stamina, like 'Sunset Boulevard' and 'Gypsy.'

There is no excuse for anyone not to train three times a week. People want to look fat. Anyone can change their mind if they want to. It's all about motivation.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

You can't win every game, so I've just got to get back to work and get better next week.

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.