Quotes About Professionalism

Dann Huff is amazing and so patient.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

I played at the highest level, so I know what kind of things go through a player's mind and how he might behave, what patterns will crop up in the day-to-day routine.

Maybe I could manage someone and be the female Paul Heyman.

With Paul Levesque and the conversations we have had I've found him to be a straight shooter and everything he said with me he kept his word 100%.

From a small child to right now - I mean, when I was five years old, Red Norville, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Les Paul, Mary Ford, people like that were coming over to my house. So I was around professional adult mature musicians who had had big careers.

I always looked up to Paul Scholes, Giggsy, Wazza and Carras. When I got the chance to train with them you saw how professional they were every day and how hard they work.

All I can do is make sure I show up to fight, and then they have no choice but to pay me.

I pay attention to how every makeup artist does everything.

When I started to work in the kitchen, there's not a lot of women that were working and I didn't try to pay attention to that.

I don't really have the desire, as far as love of the game. It's more about the paycheck I can make.

I know that a lot of times when a guy is making a lot of money and he's not playing up to that caliber, it's like he's just getting his paycheck. That's never been me. That's never, ever been me.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

No one pays me to be nice.

When you are as big and strong as Strowman, WWE notices you and basically pays you to go to school. He was paid to train, has a guaranteed contract, and gets paid whether he wrestles or not. He couldn't survive in the actual wrestling business. He never had to pay his dues.

If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts.

People treat us and they put us on this pedestal like we're so much better human beings than them because we play a professional sport.

Working with one's boss is a totally different dynamic than working with a peer, especially when doing live or live-to-tape commentary of a genre as unique as sports-entertainment.

You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.

I think the biggest thing for everybody in this league is the respect of their peers. A lot of the things we do, the way we compete, is for everybody in this league to respect as good players. Whether GMs see it or not or people on the outside, we want the respect of players.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

I'm no less focused than any of my peers. They live a different life. They go home; they are not pictured at events. I train just as much as them, maybe more.

It's never my goal to throw any of my peers under the bus.