Quotes About Commitment

If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.

I could be 30 pounds heavier if I played football. But I play baseball, and I do Pilates.

In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.

The worst 24- to 36-hour period of my whole camp, the part I like the least, is the part where I've gotta cut 13 to 15 pounds of water weight.

I'm open to fighting at 185 or 205 pounds, but I think I need to give this 185-pound run a real, honest crack. Being at this weight class has definitely made me into a different fighter.

I lost ten pounds while shooting 'Faults' somehow and by the end of the shoot people were basically handing me stuff to eat in between takes.

As a featherweight I was walking around at 155 pounds and would just have to cut those 10 extra pounds. I wasn't being very professional.

I have to continue to be different and stand my ground in this division until I'm done at 154 pounds.

I lost 35 pounds before I did 'I, Tonya' and then I had to put it back on for that.

I was not a political animal; I could not toady up to the committee men, pour drinks down their necks at the bar, and make them feel important. I was too focused on the cricket.

Any organization that gives me a chance will get me. And I'll pour my heart into the organization and do whatever it takes to win football games.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

I will get in the ring and pour my heart out. I'll do whatever it takes to make sure that when the Cruiserweight Classic is over, the one name on people's minds is Johnny Wrestling.

If I'm just doing the sprints and not have such a massive program, I can really pour everything into it.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

There are few things more powerful than a life lived with passionate clarity.

Focus. It's powerful to do just one thing and pour all your energy into it.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

I consider myself to be a very loyal person.

I've never made a conscious decision to choose work over other considerations.

I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.

Consistency for me is everything.