Quotes About Commitment

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

The truth is there ain't no relationship in the world that doesn't hit turbulence.

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

The next day you look at the new pages. For once you don't want to burn them or give up writing forever. It's a start, you say to the room. ...In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace-- and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I seem to be allergic to diligence, and Lola said, Ha. What you're allergic to is trying.

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.

You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.

things. For a day he will smell of my job, but I know that bread is stronger than blood. I have not stopped watching

You have to decide where and when, you said. If you leave it up to me I'll want to see you every day.

Sometimes you can be good at something that you still find really hard. Sometimes, to be good at something, you just need to keep showing the fuck up.

In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.

Convenience will never outweigh love.

It wasn't a small thing, to love a person.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.

Life's very precious. You've got to give it 120 per cent. Just celebrate the fact that we're alive and enjoy it.

We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective

Don't start something that you cannot finish.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.