Quotes About Dedication

I put the good playing and game first, and money, prizes are secondary.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

For me, football is not about money - I want to win prizes.

It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

I played semi-pro at Chalfont St. Peter but it's so hard to become a pro footballer - I think there's even more competition than acting.

It doesn't really matter who I turn pro with. What matters is where I take my tennis.

Since I was like eight, I always wanted to be playing pro tennis.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

Regardless of whether I'm starting or not, I'll try and be the best pro I can be.

We all just want NXT to be the best product we can do. I don't care about what's going on anywhere else, we just get on with what we do, which is competitive pro wrestling and that's what NXT is.

Playing pro baseball has definitely been a goal of mine.

It is a grind lifestyle and it never ends until you get hurt and then you sit home rehabbing for three months or whatever it is until you get back straight on that train grinding again, which is how you make your money in the pro wrestling world.

I would have liked to have been a pro firefighter.

I want to make Pro Bowls, do all the great things.

The Olympics are the biggest thing in boxing and the more you do as an amateur, the better deal you get as a pro.

I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

I'm a pro. I understand you check your ego at the door. If you don't have it that night, you don't have it that night. But sometimes you're like, 'Give me that opportunity to grind through this'.