Quotes About Commitment

I have no hesitation in taking up more acting assignments if good roles come.

I'm going to do all I can, control what I can control and I think one thing I can do beyond just playing the best I can is to start really coaching and leading other people so that I can never walk off the field saying, 'Hey, I did my part but so-and-so didn't,' that can't happen.

I like eating the right way, doing things the right way. I never had to have my dad come and say, 'Hey, you have to get back to the gym' or, 'Hey, you're eating wrong.'

I think you always want to have a project where it's not about you: where you're serving it. Where it has needs, and you're trying to meet those needs, so you're trying to lift it out of you and put it out there and then say to people, 'Hey, I think that's it; let's head that way.'

You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don't feel like you're ready, you let your coach know 'hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.'

Moderators may take flak - but, hey, that's part of what we sign up for.

It's about enjoying what you do, and that's what I try to tell everybody, 'Hey. When we wake up tomorrow, let's go hard again and let's try to do better.' That's all we can do, and that has been me all these years. I'll keep doing that until I retire.

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.

At the end of the day, of course I want to continue to be successful at Madrid; I want to be important here. I have never hidden from that.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

In this day and age, I ask anyone I date right away: 'Are you married? Are you in a relationship with anyone? Does anyone think they're in a relationship with you?' And by the way, if someone says, 'Yes, I am dating other people,' that's not necessarily a deal breaker. But you have to communicate it, not hide it.

There is so much more to football than what people may see on Saturday and I don't believe in hiding that from people.

I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

People have high expectations of me, and I want to fulfil them.

I have very high expectations out of myself.

I live for the high expectations.

Many people look forward to my work, and I hope to live up to expectations and work at a high level.

I'm trying to do my job at a high level and that's it. Everything else can take care of itself.

The way I look at it, competing at a high level, whether that's business, art or film, athletics, anything you do, there's a certain way to go about it.

If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

I'm lanky and I've always been lanky, but I was a really good athlete. Everything I've ever done in sports, I've done at a high level. I had a passion for what I was doing, and I had to be the best at everything.