Quotes About Dedication

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back of my car. Girl, I'm ready to sell one the real way now.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

Playing gigs is what it's about for me.

One of the things I loved about Black Sabbath was, when we were on the road, there were times we had been on the road for so long and we were tired and we were exhausted. We would show up at gigs and we were so tired that we would be fast asleep in the dressing room. Our road manager would come in and say, '20 minutes, guys.'

I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

I've put all the hours in and there's a depth to my education. There are a couple of brain cells in there, more than you might expect of a 6ft 1in ginger skinhead.

I'm a workin' girl.

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

Only I know how hard I trained. I left my family, my girlfriend, and the people I love in Brazil to train in the United States with 'Macaco' five or six times a day.

I don't go in there thinking about my family, friends, girlfriend, or my daughter. I want to prove to my coach that I'm the best. I don't care about anyone else.

I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.

My career is my girlfriend.

I don't have a girlfriend. I don't know if I have a type, but I really like girls who are driven. I really care about music, so I like it when a girl really cares about something too. Whatever it is they are into, I'll be their biggest fan.

For my 21st birthday, my now-wife, at the time girlfriend, flew across the country and showed up at my house.

I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend.

If you put it in perspective, I loved basketball before I loved everything else, you know what I mean? Before I had a girlfriend or even childhood friends, I had my basketball. So it's my first love.

I always want my old clubs to do well. But I have only one love in my life in football - my home club Chivas, in Guadalajara. The other clubs are my girlfriends.

My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't particularly like it, but I don't see a way 'round it.

All my fans are my girlfriends.

I make them all my girlfriends. I just express to each and every one of them every chance I get that I have millions of girlfriends, my fans.

If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life.

You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?'