Quotes About Service

I saw the role my dad had in the community, helping people. At Christmas, people would come by with cards thanking him for helping with something for the business or their farm. And I just saw the impact.

I pride myself in helping people in the community however I can.

The work I do in helping people out means much more to me than boxing ever did.

Helping people that are down and out is all I've ever wanted to do.

I want to go around the world just helping people.

Part of being a player is trying to affect the community you're in and helping people. If there's one kid I can help, I feel like I did my job.

If I wasn't playing basketball, I'd be helping people.

I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want.

I hope that when I'm 90 years old, I've accomplished a legacy that isn't all about me. I hope it's a legacy about the people who our foundation helps.

I've always enjoyed doing work that intrudes, or helps people.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

I'm not a hero. The military is.

I'm not a hero.

I don't think I was a hero. I was just doing my job.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

When we can give back to the real heroes, that's what I find rewarding.

I never knew Mother Teresa, but I admired her, especially in this day and age when there aren't many heroes.

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

I think you always want to have a project where it's not about you: where you're serving it. Where it has needs, and you're trying to meet those needs, so you're trying to lift it out of you and put it out there and then say to people, 'Hey, I think that's it; let's head that way.'

When I wanted to serve my country, I was forced to hide the most basic and human aspect of my life and my identity from the people to whom I was supposed to be the closest - and with whom I had to trust my life. I also had to hide from myself.