Tom Cruise Quotes

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created some art together.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

I've been on television since I was about 17. I had opportunities - one major opportunity I blew in my 20s. Once I started down this pathway, it was a case of not letting anyone stop me. Not my wife, not my family. It was getting too late to give it a small percentage. I had to give it one hundred percent.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

With sacrifice and work, anything can be done.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

If you really want it, you need to really work for it.

I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing to do with the fact that I tried my best to give my team a chance to win, year in and year out.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.