Quotes About Dedication

I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting.

The way I feel as baseball players we are warriors. Our job is to be ready to do what we need to do on the field.

When the Warriors are on, my wife keeps away from me. I'm a rabid fan, and my language sometimes is not too good.

These guys are warriors, my teammates.

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

All animation is a tremendous amount of work, but when you put 'Star Wars' on the top of something, there's already this bar that people are going to put on it.

There was a time when I first started when I made a fake press pass and borrowed a camera and headed into wars, and for three years, that was the only kind of story I was interested in doing.

I take my 'Star Wars' quite seriously. There's humor in the movie, but as a fan I just wanted it to feel real.

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

I've said that I would play anything to do with 'Star Wars.' But really, deep down, I would love to come back as Darth Maul - that's what I want to do. I would go crazy, go mental, lock myself in a cabin, you know. Do the whole 'method' for two or three months, spear-fishing and stuff, just to play the character again.

I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.

People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

I tell you, man, I'm every bit as a 'Star Wars' fan as anyone else.

Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

Despite that it's 'Star Wars' and how huge it is, it's still work to me, and that element of things grounds you, especially from nerding out a few times. Although, some days I can't control myself.

When I joined Lucasfilm, I immediately saw the true passion shared by 'Star Wars' fans around the world.

It's true what they say: that 'Star Wars' fans are the best.

There are tons of female 'Star Wars' fans, and they're just as fanatic about it as the boys.

For me... after having some intense wartime experiences where I lost a lot of good friends that I've loved, I made a promise to those guys who died - that I'd do everything in my power for the rest of my life to make this world a better place. Because those men were great human beings and they left a void.

I think the biggest thing to being an elite-level bobsledder is grit. You have to really want it. It's a very blue-collar sport. We do a lot of the work ourselves; we sand the runners, we wash the sled, we help maintain the sled. Obviously, we have a sled mechanic that travels with us, but a lot of the work we do ourselves.

I'm really strict with my skincare regimen. No matter what's happening in my life, I wash my face every single night and I moisturize - even if it's 4 A.M.

When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.

I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.