I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

I raced with my brother from when I started to 2014 when I finished karting.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

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.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I just want to do well with the national team.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There’s no advantage or disadvantage for either side.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

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

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Everyone loves a win in India. No one wants to lose a match. It is the cricketer who absorbs all the pressure.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

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