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

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

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

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

Love can do much, but duty more.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

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.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

Actor’s life is very long.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

In Dortmund, they say the derby is more important than the championship. You can feel it around 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 never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

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.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I can dance to just about anything.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

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.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

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.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.