Quotes About Commitment

You can't forget it is a business and not just playing football for a hobby.

For the most part, I would say that I have always had a great love for the sport, just doing what I do. I think my success could be greatly attributed to that. I don't look at it like it's a job or anything like that. Its more like a hobby, something I have fun doing.

For me, acting is not a hobby. It is a career that I have chosen and was not willing to let go of so easily after seven years of hard work.

It's my job. It's not a hobby, it's how I put food on the table for my family. I have to be on a bike.

People say that I should never turn my hobby into a career, but I think you need to be passionate enough to do a good job.

I'm a dad first and foremost, then it goes hockey and then work, in that order.

For me, my hockey career is all about the Devils.

I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.

I am a huge hockey fan.

I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.

The problem is my movie career is hindering my hockey schedule.

We're a huge hockey family. I took to it really quickly, and I was in love with it.

I've been playing hockey since I was five years old. It's a part of my life.

Hockey is my passion, and I cannot live without it.

There's a time and a place when it needs to be all about hockey. I don't think that's 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How you choose to spend that time when it's not all about hockey is completely up to you.

It's not a conscious thing for me. But whenever I have the opportunity to bring it, I want to give more than the guy before me. Hockey. Off-ice stuff. Just life in general.

Hockey is my first love, and I devote most of my time to hockey only. But if I get time, I won't mind working in films, too.

I've been playing hockey since I was two-and-a-half, three years old.

There wasn't a day when I felt like hockey was work. I still don't feel that way.

I think I have a lot more respect for someone who will be bold enough to say, 'I'm the leader of the hockey team, we're going to go there and give our best game and we're going to win the hockey game.'

But once I left home to play hockey, it was a commitment to be the best I could be and try to make the NHL.

If you play hockey, you might as well win.

It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.