During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Working out anchors my day.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

I have no trouble sleeping.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.