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.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

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.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Football is a sad game.

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.

My mom had Julia Child and ‚The Fannie Farmer Cookbook‘ on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

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

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

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.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

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

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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

I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

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.

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.

I signed for Mohun Bagan and then I got the news that Bhaichung also joined the club. The first day he met me he told me that I have heard about you and you are doing well. I told everyone in my family and friends that Bhaichung told me that.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

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 do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

You can be passionate about anything.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

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

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.