Quotes About Dedication

I come from theatre and there have been roles where my job was to stand in the corner, with a sword in my hands, for two hours. And I was happy doing that.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

I have sworn to die painting.

If you put 20 cents in me and ask me to talk about South Sydney, I'll play all night.

When I say I gave it my all in Sydney, I really did.

I don't really rate these matches as winning or losing, Sydney and Kooyong. That's not important to me. What's important for me is to get out on the court, do my thing and work on a few things I needed to do.

For me I tried to not keep a low profile but I was training in a different country as I prepared for Sydney because I had such a realistic gold medal shot. I just wanted to stay focused and not get caught up in all of the hullabaloo and all of press prior to it.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

It's a game that just takes so much out of you. Every aspect of your life has to be very narrow, very focused. Everything else has to go away. And because of that, I think it's obviously not healthy. The last thing I'm looking for is sympathy.

Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.

There's little place for sympathy in football.

A symphony is no joke.

I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

I played through flu-like symptoms before. It was frustrating.

I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.

I make sure my lip sync is correct. It's a long process. But I enjoy it.

I love what I'm seeing out there with Pro Wrestling Syndicate, Northeast Wrestling, Big Time Wrestling, and WildKat in New Orleans. There is a lot of good stuff out there.

My mother is a hardcore actor's actor. She's not a celebrity. She really isn't... And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome.

Obsession is a synonym for magic. Magic is a synonym for genius. It's a knack. It's an aptitude.

Success and singing is not synonymous.

I feel like the word 'mom' and 'supermom' should be synonymous. When you are a mom, you are a superhero.

I've worked with the same Prophet 5 Synthesizer by Sequential Circuit synthesiser for 40 years.

I had to travel long distances to train on a synthetic track, which added to residual fatigue.