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.

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.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

The first wealth is health.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

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.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Rap was my drug.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

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

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

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.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

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.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

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

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

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.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

I like to work.