Quotes About Dedication

Back when I first started in country music, you did it because you loved it, because it definitely wasn't where the big money was.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

To me, every play counts. To me, how I play in individuals, how I play in practice, that's how I'm going to play in the game.

I might get to the barn later, but I stay longer, and that's what counts.

The only thing that counts is hard work.

I used to go into the practice room when I played county. Sometimes I wasn't playing until five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and I was there at 9 A.M. The cleaners were hoovering around me.

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

A couple of years ago I undertook the challenge of being on the cover of Men's Health - it was seriously hard work, but I felt amazing.

When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.

At the end, I have to take the court I get scheduled on.

I just want to get on the court.

As long as you put me out on the court, I was gonna play hard.

I'm always on the court with my dad.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

I always leave everything on the court, every game. Tell me how many other players can say that.

I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.

When I go out on court, I don't care what I look like. I don't care if I'm out of my bed as long as I win the match, and that's what I'm there for. It doesn't matter what I'm wearing, it doesn't matter what I look, it doesn't matter what my hair feels like. All I feel is the moment I have to play well, give my 100% and win the match.

Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California.

It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.

Me and my cousin started doing CrossFit in my barn; I haven't looked back since.

I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors.

Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.

I want to have my 11 or 12, 13, 14 belt picture. I want to be lying down just covered in them. I want a lot of them. I want my closets to be filled with UFC belts.