Quotes About Dedication

Community involvement is second nature to me. I've been doing it since high school.

I love being involved with Brainfeeder. I would have never thought that it would have been such an intense involvement.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.

Batman and Blade were probably about neck-and-neck for me. If it was anything involving those two characters, I was there, man.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

I make playlists on my iPod like nobody's business!

We are not going to abandon Iraq.

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

If I didn't want to be playing for Ireland, I wouldn't be here.

The sport wouldn't be what it is without the fans, and at UFC 189, watching the Irish fans screaming 'Ole Ole Ole' was pretty amazing.

There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.

Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong.

Growing up I was a competitive Irish step dancer.

I'm just an old Irish guy who believes if you have children, you need to be there to raise them.

When someone is successful, there's always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.

Having been raised very disciplined, I had to iron for my mom every Friday afternoon after school.

When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a natural thing.

You are in school, and you hear about 'Iron Chef' and think, 'One day, I have to be on 'Iron Chef.'

During those years with the Iron Maidens, I felt I had to be great and really prove myself at every single show.

When I was younger, and Iron Maiden and Def Leppard and all that stuff was coming out, I was learning all those songs and trying to play guitar and develop my chops. I was a big fan.

It's irrelevant whether it's a big match or not. It's about focusing on your job at the time. You're still trying to do things as well as you can.

I do my research the same as everyone else - I watch games relentlessly and try to be the best that I can be. It should be irrelevant whether I'm male or female, so as long as I work hard and try my best at it, then more we keep speaking about it, then we can eradicate it from the game.

When it comes time for basketball, everything else is kind of irrelevant.