Neil Peart Quotes

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

My life is consumed by racing.

Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'

I'm a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.

Music is my 90% of my life and my biggest passion. I really don't have an interest in anything else.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

I don't typically have a social life, I don't have a family, and I will stay up all night, every night, for days on end, to solve something that I think is solvable. And it's very frustrating sometimes, because I know that I'm like that, and it's not always a positive result.

The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. I've never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause.

I really don't know life without wrestling.

People used to ask me, 'What else do you want to do?' For me, the answer was, 'Nothing.' I loved basketball. It's all I wanted.

Anything I do, I do fanatically.