Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

I got my buzz from playing.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

I spend a lot of time reading.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck… and then we just go for a drive. That’s it!

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

I like to let things breathe.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.