Tony Lema Quotes

Golf and dating don't mix.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

I don't have time to date.

I've got a lot of other things I want to do.

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I'm finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

If a guy were dating my daughter but didn't want to spend the gas money to come pick her up or refused to buy her dinner because it cost too much, I would question whether he were really in love with her In the same way, I question whether many American churchgoers are really in love with God because they are so hesitant to do anything for Him." Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don’t get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.

There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won't always be there.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

I don't like to joke about dating.

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons

When you're working and you're busy and you're successful, no matter what, something suffers, whether it's your relationship with your mother, your relationship with your whole family. Certain things suffer and take the back burner, not because they're on the back burner in your heart but because the world just moves so quickly. A lot of people, when they're chasing their dreams, they have to leave people they love.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.