I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

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.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

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.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

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

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

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

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

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

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

You can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

I only act from my heart.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

We love things we love what they are.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

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

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

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

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

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

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

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

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

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

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

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

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

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

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.