Dirk Nowitzki Quotes

I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.

I want players who are always striving to improve.

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.

I'm poised to take any opportunity, I'm poised to keep myself in tip-top shape because that's what I love to do.

You still have to be excited about getting up and trying to figure out what we can get better at, and that's very important to me.

I think how football works, the way you have to look at football, that is the difference between Leicester and Newcastle. There is big motivation here to keep growing and to get better here at Leicester. I didn't feel they had it at Newcastle.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team.

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

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

If you're going to come wanting to work really hard, you're never going to bum me out.

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

I have a lot of energy, and I like to work.

I think athletically I can be okay with any role, but I'm willing to go over and beyond for my work. My fan base is so strong and loyal, and they wanna see me evolve. I'm where I'm supposed to be and I want to challenge myself with the people that are doing it real big.

I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.

If there are actors that are brilliant, people often wonder whether it's intimidating working alongside them, but it really isn't. It just makes you up your game and want to be better. Rather than cowering in their shadows, it's very encouraging to see someone who's incredible; it makes me want to be a bit more like them.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

When you compete with good people, it makes everybody better.

I just love to work hard.

Working is working. I love to work.