Quotes About Dedication

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.

I have been a Bruin since the start of my pro career and there is no place I would rather play.

I didn't start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my goals changed as I went along. I wanted to be the British champion, and then I wanted to be a pro, then Mr. Olympia.

I have decided, and am truly excited to announce, that I will be turning pro. I believe that, in the long run, this is the best way for me continue to develop as an athlete.

Why should the televised stuff be only about pro gamers? For me it's more fascinating to see who's going to be the next god of gods than watching some pro gamer.

Pro athletes don't even practice as much as college players.

This is somewhere I want to be for now on, being in the Pro Bowl and being an All-Pro player.

I think many fighters could go pro in another sport. When it really boils down to it, it's because we are the best athletes in the world.

I want to score goals. Everyone says that's the only part of my game that's missing. Before I was a pro I used to score goals for fun. I want to bring that back into my game.

Obviously, not many people get to be pro athletes and hopefully make it in their sport. So I'm just lucky enough to have the chance.

Luckily, I have been a part of New Japan Pro Wrestling for eight years and it's been a great run with a lot of cool things and amazing experiences.

Now as I got older, it wasn't just that I want to be a pro in two sports, I want to be successful at the professional level in two sports. Obviously, I'm still working to attain that. Especially in basketball.

I hate to admit it, but my family was on the back burner for a good part of my career. I was so engrossed in what I was doing that I took my VCR home, ate dinner, went to my room and watched five games. Four days after the Pro Bowl, I'd be at the gym. But I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Football was my way out.

After turning pro, I was feeling a lot of respect to everybody actually, especially top players.

I always told my mother when I was growing up that I was going to go pro in something, and it came true. All the hard work paid off for me.

I'm not a politician, I'm a pro golfer.

I turned pro at 18 and it took me 20 years to get to world No1.

I would like people to say that when they describe the type of player I am. Someone that prepares like a pro.

For me, changing my physical appearance for a character is never a problem. If I have to look a certain way for a role, I just do it.

When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.

My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.