If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

I love watching track and field – the 4×100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you’re going to win.

I love soccer, love tennis… Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles… The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable… He is so calm… In soccer, I’m a huge fan of Barcelona… I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.