Quotes About Commitment

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

It was very clear I wasn't giving my all in the past - not even close.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.

Even if you see me with some pasta, I'm still strangling and arm-locking people at least five days a week and I need that.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

Pat Tillman is a hero of mine.

I'm not Abdul-Jabbar or Pat Ewing or Mark Eaton. I'm Shawn Bradley and I'm going to do my best each time I step on the court. When the game is over, it's over.

One of my goals is to be Defensive Player of the Year. One of my goals is to be Rookie of the Year. And one of my long-term goals is to be walking across that stage with a jacket on and a nice little patch on it that says 'Hall of Fame.'

I think I've shown patches of being a good defender and then I've gotten lazy off the ball and you make a stupid play and you look like you can't guard anybody.

Raj has always been a great encouragement to me. We have gone through some really rough patches as well. There was a time when I was always busier than him. That was a good part of our married life.

I guess we go through multiple rough patches in all of our relationships.

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only path.

There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, 'That's not gonna make me happy.'

I could have gone down a very different path, but my parents would not let me give up football.

Boxing is one of the hardest jobs in the world, so when I found my career path, what I'd learnt in the boxing gym meant I was head and shoulders above everybody else.

If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my feet. I don't want to become pathetic, but I think I will be lucid enough. I'll know when to stop.

In the 84 days after Beijing I had, on average, three things a day and one day off. I didn't sleep in the same bed for more than two nights in a row. It sounds a bit pathetic but it was exhausting - it was like really intensive training with no rest days.