Quotes

Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Unfortunately, the life of a player is not forever.

I think that you cannot have everything in life, and sometimes you just - destiny wants you to take another path.

If a guy has five good games and then starts to go out, drink, sleep late, live the wrong kind of lifestyle, then his performances will always suffer.

Everyone dreams of playing for Madrid, but we all know that it can be life or death.

Football is part of my life, but it is not all of my life.

The secret in life is to make every obstacle into an opportunity.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

My life is way bigger than boxing or acting or being rich or being famous or endorsements.

I tell all kids and the girls growing up that you control your own life, you control your destiny - not where you're born, not who your parents are.

I trained my whole life for the Olympics. I didn't have a childhood, I really couldn't go to the beach with my friends. Couldn't go to parties. Just training, training, training.

You got to adjust to how your life is.

I consider my diet more of a life plan in general, and I have my days where I'll splurge, but I stay disciplined.

There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

The drive toward Life is protective, thoughtful, vulnerable, and invested in immaculate love. It is this last that marks the difference between a wise heart muddy with real life experiences in the trenches and a dry heart that functions on rote concepts alone.

You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.

Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.

Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?