Quotes About Dedication

I'm only 20; you've got your whole career ahead of you. I'm just focused on playing for West Ham and playing with a smile on my face and enjoying it.

People wonder why I smile a lot. It is because I am doing what I love best: to play football for people who love me. It makes me happy.

I have to smile because we, as footballers, are really lucky to do the job we do. But this is not just a job for me. It's my passion.

We're here for the fans. At the end of the day, that's what WWE is all about. If we can put a smile on their faces, we've done our job.

That's why you have the long hours in the studio and on sets: so you can come out and see the fans. To see the smiles you put on people's faces.

Working with Janhvi is great. She has the best energy on set. She brings smiles on people's faces. She is very dedicated and sincere.

I see all that celebrity stuff now as whatever, man. What's more important is that everyday people are liking my music, it's got to that stage. I've worked really hard for a long time for it to come to this point, where I'm putting smiles on people's faces, and I'm loving it.

I was always criticized through my whole career because I wasn't doing the whole smiling thing on stage. But I didn't feel like doing that, I felt like I was there for competition and it was tough and I wasn't there to smile.

When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.

We keep trying to get better - constantly working at it. We love to tour. I love to play in front of people. You sit there, and everybody's smiling, and you're smiling. It's a good time.

The only pictures you saw of me when I was playing, I was crashing into a centre forward! Or running down a line to save my team. I'm not gonna be happy, be smiling.

I could sit here and tell you about Walter Smith until the cows come home, about how good a manager, how good a coach and a football man he was.

On behalf of all Americans, I would like to congratulate Michelle Smith on her dedication and determination which have made her a wonderful role model for all young athletes in Ireland and around the world.

You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.

I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.

My kickboxing coach Maurice Smith is one of the best ever.

All credit to my mother who, despite having to look after eight children, always made time for exercise. She'd work out to Jane Fonda and later Kathy Smith and Cindy Crawford in between managing us.

Everybody knows I smoke, drink, and be up in the club, but I don't want that to be my entire thing. I want them to see me get up and go to the gym after a night of clubbing.

You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.

Whatever I am today is mostly because of my training at FTII. It taught me to be disciplined as an actor. People accuse us of being lazy and presume that we smoke up and laze about in the campus, which is not true at all. FTII courses are hard work.

I think my style of play, not drinking, I think I'm a product of clean living. I don't drink, don't smoke.

I had the Slash 'How to Play Guitar' DVD. I just wanted to be the best guitarist, like, ever. My brother played guitar, and he taught me 'Smoke on the Water,' and I played it over and over again for ages.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.