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

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

The law is reason, free from passion.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

I wanted to write.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

At 17, I went to Stanford University to study engineering. My time was occupied with the required reading and the extracurricular duties of managing the baseball and football teams and earning my way.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

I didn’t play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

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

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

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!

Football is unconditional love.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

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.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

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

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

I only act from my heart.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

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

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.