Quotes About Dedication

If I could have played on another five years, I would have stayed here because Botafogo have a young, competitive team. We've improved not only technically but also as a team. Even after me, Botafogo will remain great.

I have my little entourage of who I travel with, some friends and people who help me more technically on the track. Obviously, my engineers who I work closely with, we are all in the ship together.

I like dancers who demand of themselves to achieve, not just technically but also as performers.

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

Actors betray. Technicians don't. Movies are made by technicians.

Whatever I have achieved is all thanks to my team. I always say that I don't repeat actors as often as I repeat my technicians.

When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

As a young performer, what you need to be doing is building your technique and musicality, not promoting your abilities - unless you're ready to take on all that will result from such an approach.

I am aware that I am not extraordinarily gifted in terms of technique.

The thing you're working so hard for are milliseconds. Saving a 10th of a second from 9.82 to 9.72 is huge. There are a lot of things I can fix from my technique standpoint and making sure I hold my form at the end of the race, to not slow down as much as I usually do.

I did wrestling in high school; that helped, as far as technique goes.

It's about technique and getting your horse to stretch for you and to give you everything that it's got.

Once I became number one, I started working even harder. I changed my technique, but injuries started creeping in - it was a big mistake, as I was doing something right to get to that spot in the first place.

A free-kick is a very tough technique and it's something I've always worked on.

Sometimes I put my heart in front of my technique.

I have no guitar technique.

I still want to make more plays, but you know it's going to come. You gotta keep playing, playing hard, continue to study, continue to get myself better, working on my technique, and it will come. Just gotta keep working.

I was just trying to be immersed in my technique and I was actually immersed in it. That is the difference between really performing well and not performing well at the highest level.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game.

It ain't the technique, it ain't the speed, it ain't the power. It's who wants it the most.

When you have good runners, you always run fast. That's the motivation for me. But I have room to improve in my technique and in the start.