Geoff Dyer Quotes

I open the driving range and I close it. I thought you ought to know that I work hard. I like practising. I enjoy it. If I did not enjoy it I would not do it. What is the point of going back to the hotel, having a drink and talking a load of bull?

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

A lot of people just look at acting as a quick fix - they don't have a work ethic. This is a job; it's not all margaritas on the beach.

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

I am the extreme member of the band because I never go out after the show. It's my rule.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.

Work always comes first as an actor.

We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.

If I waited to be inspired to go to the gym, I'd never get there. I schedule my exercise time; I schedule my work time. This is especially important if you have a day job as I did while writing my first seven novels.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don't see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

At training camp, you brainwash yourself into thinking every, day is the same, no weekends or holidays. It's all the same - a work day. You develop a mental state to just work hard and get ready for the fight.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.

I always try to work on my birthday.