Quotes About Commitment

We earned the 'Line of Duty' audience's loyalty over a number of years, and I feel privileged to have that.

From making my international debut as a 16-year-old to now 37, it has been a good 21 years of my prime life spent not at home but at the ground - different countries, hotels, grounds, coaches, travel etc. It's been a very privileged journey.

No-one is forced to stand for Parliament; no-one is compelled to become a minister. If you take on those roles, which are great privileges, you also take on big responsibilities.

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

I consider myself a prize fighter going into a very, very tough ring called daytime TV, and I take it very seriously.

I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize.

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

I had the privilege of knowing and working with Norman Borlaug - who has been aptly described by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee as the greatest hunger fighter of our time - for nearly 50 years.

Look at all the champs over time once they get the belt - they just fall off. I'm not one of those guys. The belt isn't my ultimate prize, it just looks good with all my other gold, chains, and diamonds.

I put the good playing and game first, and money, prizes are secondary.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

I played semi-pro at Chalfont St. Peter but it's so hard to become a pro footballer - I think there's even more competition than acting.

My goal isn't to be a top junior. It's to be a top pro.

Regardless of whether I'm starting or not, I'll try and be the best pro I can be.

I would have liked to have been a pro firefighter.

Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

I'm a pro. I understand you check your ego at the door. If you don't have it that night, you don't have it that night. But sometimes you're like, 'Give me that opportunity to grind through this'.

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.