Quotes About Dedication

In football, you can't always play well, and sometimes there will be criticism. Sometimes when I get a lot, it helps me. It makes me work even harder to improve and make the critics a little more positive.

I don't play for the critics, I play for my team-mates.

If the fans want to enjoy watching me fight, enjoy me with my love for fighting, it's fine. But if they don't, it don't cross my mind. If the fans still love me, I can put on good shows for them.

Retirement has never, ever crossed my mind. And I honestly can't imagine when or why it would. If you're doing the thing you love, why on earth would you want to stop doing it?

Of course, not everyone's going to get on but when you crossed that white line it didn't matter. For those 90 minutes it didn't matter what else was going on, we'd do anything to win.

I don't really think about the crowd when I am in the middle. I actually forget about the crowd, forget the money; that's exactly what I always do.

The crowd is everything in my life. I just love the fans, and I also have a lot of respect for them. They've given me everything I have in my life.

I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

My school career was absolutely crucial to me. As an endurance athlete, some of the most important years are maybe when you are 16, 17, and 18. For me, getting that right was very important, and my school allowed me to do that.

The crucial thing for me is that I stick to my job.

If you go back many years ago, you could cruise around and build up a big point lead. You cannot cruise around at all. You gotta be on it. And that's what I think people really enjoy. I've always believed that brings out the biggest moments, too. It brings out the driver talent.

People think I'm accident-prone when they see me on crutches, but I do eight shows a week.

This game will make you cry more often than not.

I'd rather have a driver that was like that, that had that passion and that fire in his belly and you can channel that. The sport's crying out for more drivers like Max Verstappen.

There's no crying in basketball.

It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.

I just appreciated so much the contract they gave me, and I wanted to give something back to the Cubs' organization.

Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.

While on shoots, if I am not shooting for a scene, I would do any work that I can pick, including taking the clap, cue, basically assisting my directors.

I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.

Meru is the culmination of all I've done and all I've wanted to do.

I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life.

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'