Quotes About Commitment

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

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.

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

If I come across a good project, I will surely take it up.

I will surely watch 'Toofaan.'

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.

You have to go into every event with 100 percent confidence and just surf your best because everyone there is there to win, and no one is going to give you the heat. You have to win by a mile to really make a heat.

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.'

You can't just skim the surface of any role. You have to find the depths, because any other way would be dishonest.

I didn't know what off-season meant. I could sprint barefoot, anywhere, anytime and on any surface.

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.

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 don't distract myself from work stuff with funny emails and surfing the internet when I'm at work; I don't distract myself from my family when I'm with them.

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

Surfing is my life. It's my passion.

The orthopaedic surgeon said that if ever I had hip or groin pain, I should rest until the pain went. However, resting is not part of a dancer's life - so I just danced through the pain.

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.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.