Quotes About Dedication

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

There's some times where I wish I would strike out instead of hitting a little dribbler. I wish sometimes I gave myself a true swing, a true whack at it, instead of going in the dugout like, 'I didn't give my best effort.'

I'd like to play the whale in 'Moby Dick.' If I keep eating, I may end up getting there.

I love 'Sky Whale!' I play it in bed, I play it in church, I even play it on the toilet!

There's no doubt in my mind that I wouldn't be in the position that I am if I didn't have my 'One Tree Hill' fans. They're the most dedicated, devoted fans. They're behind you no matter what. If one person says one bad thing about me on Twitter, they're fighting back!

No matter what, if I got in for one minute or five minutes - especially that first year, minutes were really crucial for me - I played hard.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my brother works nine hours a day at his job... What if I worked nine hours a day at being an actor?'

I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.

What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.

I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.

I've done this a couple times, been to a couple different camps and a couple different AAU practices to talk to kids. I tell them you have to be dedicated, have to decide if you want to be a serious basketball player or not. They always ask, 'What if you get discouraged?' You have to remember what your goal was in the first place.

My mother always made me do ball-handling and all that because she was like, 'What if you stop growing?'

Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'

That's the easy part, to continue to do what you love, to focus, to train, there's no extra motivation that needs to be added to that.

You want to do what you love, but stuff overshadows it, so it makes it a little harder for people to take me seriously.

If you do what you love, you're going work your butt off every day.

When work is what you love to do, it's not work - it's serving.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

I like to act. I guess letting what you love be what you do is key. I've worked very hard for that to be the case, probably because I'm very lazy and I only want to do things that are fun and I run away from anything that feels like work... Acting for me is like lunch at school... you're just in a playground where you get to pretend and play.

I love the sport. I don't have to work. It's a kind of work we're doing, but if you can do what you love every day, that means something.