Mark Hoppus Quotes

High school for me was not all that fun. I think it's a lot more fun after when you realize that high school ends, and everything that's important at that time is sort of not important if people don't like your jeans or whatever. It doesn't matter.

Looking back on high school, I just remember specific scenarios and thinking, wow, that was such a big deal at the time, but right now it feels like it never even happened. So I guess if I can give any advice, I would just say that everything will pass, and it'll feel like it was a big deal over nothing.

Football is important but it's not the most important thing.

Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid; each cycle of the wave is valid; each cycle of a relationship is valid.

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

You don't really grow up until you quit playing sports.

I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

Let's just say I've learned a lot and seen things differently than any other average high school kid.

Cricket was a splendid chapter of my life; indeed, it made me what I am today. However, cricket alone isn't the only flavour of life. Sometimes, indeed, we tend to take sports too seriously and life too casually.

I have a good understanding that baseball is not the most important thing in the world, but at the same time you want to get a hit.

The most important and invaluable lesson I've learnt in the past 20 years of being in filmdom is to never look back.

I'm not some young tough guy trying to prove a point anymore.