Quotes About Dedication

Honestly, I don't know the word 'pressure,' because football is my job. I always enjoy it.

I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.

In my heart, international cricket is the way forward. That's where you want to play; that's where the pressure really lies. That's where you make your name.

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

I won't call it pressure but I want to come out with a better movie every time. That kind of enthusiasm is what makes an artiste aim for more.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours.

To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.

I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit. I used to dream that one day that would be me.

As much as we like to pretend we're just getting on stage and whatever, it's like, no, I practiced in front of the mirror my whole life.

I really wanted a No. 1 single from my first album, but I would not do anything different. It was real and honest and I didn't pretend anything.

I was 27 or 28 years old when I really decided I would become a manager. I would go home from training at Lazio, grab a folder and pretend I was taking a training session. You know the way kids imagine things, when they are playing? I would do the same as an adult, playing at being a manager.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

I'm so loyal to Black Sabbath, and I would never, ever, ever, under any circumstances, go into a situation with them under false pretenses.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

'Happy girls are the prettiest,' and to be in the camera frame makes me happy. I just want myself to keep working. I can be in front of the camera for 48 hours continuously without any breaks.

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

Violinists' hands aren't the prettiest because of our nails and what our hands have to go through.

I can say I want to be known as the prettiest player ever but I don't control that, the people control that. So all I can do is show up to work every day and give my best.