Quotes

With this acting and this lifestyle, your privacy does get taken a little.

You have to do a version of somebody that's the essence of Paterno. I think that's what Al is so great at. You have to create a man, a life, and the emotions that go with it. He's truly brilliant.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.

You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.

The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

Life doesn't stop with football.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

You're not going to go to battle with someone you don't know. It doesn't matter what walk of life it is, whether it's business or in war.

One of the blessings of Notre Dame is where it's at. It's in the middle of nowhere, but you become part of the community. It's a lifestyle, and it has a code, and that code teaches young men and women responsibility and leadership.

It's life, it's hockey. You just can't worry about it.

All of my life, my wife's been the rock. She's made the right decisions.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.