Landon Donovan Quotes

It's never fun to sit and watch, especially when you think you could be impacting the game.

Unless you're being carted off, you should be on the field.

You don't want to stay on the bench. You want to play every game.

I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

It's true that I had two different offers from Chinese football, but I stayed in England in order to give myself the opportunity. To go there would have been the easiest way, because it was a great offer, but I wanted to stay.

If you love this game, you always want to be out there, not in the sideline dressed in the street clothes. Especially when you know you can help the team.

No one wants to sit on the bench and not play.

When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.

Sometimes you have to do a role that might not be the most interesting, but it will set you up for doing roles that you want to do.

You are not an observer, you are a participant.

Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.

I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.

Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.

Yogi Berra put it best, "If people don't want to come, we can't stop them."

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

Sometimes I have young comics that ask me, "What should I do when I meet an agent or a manager and they ask me stuff?" And I say, "Well, they always usually ask, 'Where do you see yourself in five years, 10 years, 15 years?' And it's good to have an answer for that."

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Watching something is nothing like doing it.

There are always seasons to a career and perhaps always the grass is often greener, you're often looking at other people's careers going, "Damn, they get all the good roles. Why didn't I read that? Why didn't they ask me to do that?"

Let's say you want to do a job, and you want to be really successful. You want to rise really high in that career. But where you live, that job doesn't exist. Your town's too small. Or maybe the business is your town, but even if you reach the pinnacle there, because it's a small town, it's not nearly as high as you could go. If you're unwilling to move, well, that's all on you. That's a limitation you're placing on yourself. Now, that's fine if that's what makes you happy.

I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.