Richard Bach Quotes

I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.

I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But yeah, when the other doors open, why not walk through?

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.

I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.

I've been in so many crazy experiences in my life. I was always moving when I was a kid. When I look back, it's hard for me not to feel that certain things just happen for a reason.

The only reason I wound up in Nashville and went to Belmont University is because that's where I needed to be.

I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.

You never know where the future will take you.

I never thought in my whole life of becoming a heavy metal singer, but it just happened because I took the challenge.

The world shows us what we need at a specific moment in time.

I never even knew I would end up becoming an actor. It was coincidental for me. Once I did it, I realised it's what I really want to do.

I got the opportunity, and I grabbed it, and slowly, I started finding a lot of interest in acting.

The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.