Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

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

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

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.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he’s been making his whole life, and he’s still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

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

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

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

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

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.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Football is all about fans.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.