Extreme Commitment Quotes

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.

It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy.

Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?

I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

Villains have to be passionate enough to say to themselves, 'I will do anything.' It's a certain type of personality that in life, for me, is not the way I live. Because you can't live in a society that way.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

I do everything in this life-or-death way.

Nothing ever gets done unless it's done by a fanatic.

I mean the people who seriously, seriously play devote their lives to it sort of the way monks do. I mean you don't date, you go to bed at a certain time, you eat certain ways, you practice 10-12 hours a day. And I mean, the difference between practicing three hours a day and practicing 12 hours a day is everything. And I certainly never - I never trained seriously after the age of 16.

I'm convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You've got to live beyond your means. You've got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths.

The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.

“I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This was nothing... Once I jumped off a roof.”

It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

People have actually had my face tattooed on to their bodies, which is so odd.

For my love, I will wade through an ocean of blood, even if it destroys me

I've just been eating, sleeping basketball.

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

If I wasn't going to be able to dance professionally, I wasn't going to dance. That's my all-or nothing personality coming out.