Quotes About Dedication

I really only put stuff out when I have something to say and I feel like I've got a direction and I've got an idea - and that can even take two, two-and-a-half years to flesh out.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

I remember for my Champions League debut against Anderlecht, my dad flew 27 hours to reach that game and he was crying all 95 minutes!

I've got a family and job that I really love with super flexibility.

I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

I travel 300 days a year which is tough. Sometimes we're up at 4 A.M. for a flight.

I have a very high love for the game. My mom would always drop me off at the YMCA downtown in Flint, and I'd stay there all day. If she couldn't take me, I'd take the bus there and be there until she'd pick me up when she got off work. I've always had the love for basketball.

I can't flip a burger, I can't do anything. All I know how to do is sing. I've been blessed to be able to make a living doing what I love.

When I was 16 years old, I thought that backflips were like the coolest thing. So I spent like months and months of my life like, literally flipping onto my head.

Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.

I'm just a basketball player. There's so much I can do on the floor.

I gave everything I had - on the floor, trying to be the best leader that I could, trying to help the guys as much as I could, putting in the extra work.

For me, whenever I get on the floor, I'm gonna try to impact the game and just do what I do.

My expectation for the first year was to work hard, and whenever I get a chance, whenever I get on the floor, to do my best.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

When you're prepared, and you do the best you can do, and you put it out there on the floor, you've just got to live with the results.

I wouldn't say I'm the best player. On the competitive level, I am the best competitor. I don't think there's anybody like me. I play my heart out on both ends of the floor, and I give my all.

I believe I fill in every box on both ends of the floor.

I can do the little things, play defense, dive on the floor to get loose balls, things like that.

No one's built like me. I play 110% on both ends of the floor.

I've changed, and I've learned every single year what to do and what not to do. But I still pride myself on going out and doing the right things. Doing what I'm supposed to be doing on both ends of the floor.

I just care about winning and doing what I can while I'm on the floor.