I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

To kids, I’ve always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough – I box and do karate – but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

Rap was my drug.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

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

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

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

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Glutes are power.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

The way to know life is to love many things.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.