Quotes About Dedication

I try to focus on my fans, who I know have been there since day one.

From day one, I knew that I want to spend the rest of my life with Shalini.

I've been trying to be champion since day one.

In the day-to-day, one only thinks about his club in training and trying to be in the starting line-up.

Winning is, of course, rewarding; who doesn't enjoy winning? But for me, it's about more than just winning: it's about knowing I'm putting in the day-to-day work to get a little bit better every time.

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

Some days I would work 18-hour days because I was dancing and choreographing.

I've gotta say, daytime fans are the best fans. Everyone always says that, and it's so true.

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

I don't know anyone who's started more consecutive Daytona 500s than me.

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

I want to play in the NBA. I'm dead serious.

There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.

If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

I love a daily deadline.

I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fiction, it's work. I have contracts to fulfil, and I have deadlines to meet.

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.

I am a professional, and I always fulfil my deals.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

I love music. It's always been very dear to me. It's a big passion.

You hear a song like 'Wait For It,' you hear a song like 'Dear Theodosia' - if you get one of those songs in a musical - one - it's worth dropping everything to sing that one song.