Quotes About Commitment

If you want to be pro, you have to hold yourself accountable. It's about what you do when nobody's looking.

Maggie is my sister-in-law, married to my brother David. She is a defense attorney who devotes 25 percent of her practice to pro bono wrongful-incarceration cases.

I've been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.

That's why I enjoy Davis Cup, and I really enjoyed college tennis. It's very special. You want to go out there and compete your hardest, because you don't want to let anyone down. You want to absolutely give it your all for your team. And that's sort of the mentality I've taken to pro tennis.

There was a time that I really loved pro wrestling, but I'm not a pro wrestling junkie, per se.

I would not change my career to be a pro athlete. A team could trade me and my band cannot!

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

Once I turned pro, I was like okay, this is not fun and games now.

There's so much that goes into being a pro athlete that people have no idea about.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

I started in my pro debut in a leisure centre in front of a couple of hundred people and I just worked hard for the last eight or nine years of my professional career.

You stay sharp. You go back into the gym. You work, put that work in, get that conditioning up, you lift. You pretty much know as a pro athlete what you need to do to get yourself back. But none of that, for me, means as much as playing.

Ultimately, I decided to go pro because that is what makes the most amount of sense for me.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.

I have been a Bruin since the start of my pro career and there is no place I would rather play.

I have decided, and am truly excited to announce, that I will be turning pro. I believe that, in the long run, this is the best way for me continue to develop as an athlete.

Pro athletes don't even practice as much as college players.

This is somewhere I want to be for now on, being in the Pro Bowl and being an All-Pro player.

I think many fighters could go pro in another sport. When it really boils down to it, it's because we are the best athletes in the world.

It is a difficult decision, either to turn pro or stay amateur.

Now as I got older, it wasn't just that I want to be a pro in two sports, I want to be successful at the professional level in two sports. Obviously, I'm still working to attain that. Especially in basketball.

I hate to admit it, but my family was on the back burner for a good part of my career. I was so engrossed in what I was doing that I took my VCR home, ate dinner, went to my room and watched five games. Four days after the Pro Bowl, I'd be at the gym. But I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Football was my way out.

Six months before the end of my mission, I was dogged by the press to give an answer about turning pro. They were extremely persistent.