Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Life is warfare.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.