Quotes About Dedication

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

To be totally sincere, I'd surely be a better actor today if I hadn't played Columbo all these years.

I surfed competitively from age 13 to 18. Every day, before and after school. I wanted to surf for the rest of my life. It's what all my friends did - I even had it as a subject in school for a number of years.

I made surf movies for 20 years, exclusively. And it's incredible, and I feel blessed to be able to do that and have that long of a run.

My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.

On the surface, being a musician can look pretty glamorous. But so much work goes into it.

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.

On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'

We're not building a nuclear reactor here. We're not drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean with no plan in case something goes wrong. This is making music, this is melodious air and people can hear what goes into it.

A lot of times I'll see guys who are nowhere near the level of the board they're riding. They might love surfing and love how it looks, but you really have to work your way up. It takes eating a little humble pie at first, and stepping back to equipment that might be a bit slow, but do it.

Surfing is my religion, if I have one.

I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

There was one thing I loved a little bit more than surfing - and that was acting.

I think there just needs to be an emotional attachment to the surfer, however you get that, so that, when you watch the surfing, you can relate to that person, or you're rooting for them, in a way.

Mike Clark, who's a really amazing surfer, got me back into surfing. I surfed a lot from '82 to '86, and then I kind of started slacking.

I hope to be able to keep surfing as long as I'm alive.

It's what I love to do and I'll never stop surfing.

Surfing is my life. It's my passion.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

At heart, I'm a reconstructive surgeon.

As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I've worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.