Clay Matthews III Quotes

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.

My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.

Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.

For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

Celebrity was fun, and I had a good time.

I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

Working for Oprah is a dream come true. She was on my dream board for the longest time.

I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.

For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.