Alfred Austin Quotes

Fact about me - I love jumping over/into things.

I'm excited to go surfing every time. I have fun in any kind of wave in the ocean.

That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

I like the edge of danger.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

I love the storm and fear the calm.

I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.

I've been surfing since I was a kid.

Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait.

For me, New York has always been a city of unpredictability. You can never guess what's going to happen next.

I think, with soccer, you never really know what's going to happen in your career - that's the beauty of it.

I like swimming. I like the beach. I like fast cars. I like speedboats.

Every part of me is a surfer. I love surfing, and I love the waves that I surf. So that's the thing that I get excited about most: What kind of waves am I going to be able to surf? Am I going to be surfing alone, or will we be surfing waves that no one's surfed before? Second to that is photography.

Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.

I love good balance, so being a collector is a fun little thing while we travel this world. I mean, every night, it's something else. The other night, I head-banged a dude on my rental car and drove him through the curtain in my rental car. So some moments are not as good as others, but they are all fun, that's for sure.

I like things to be unpredictable.

Sometimes football is a crazy thing.

Football is crazy sometimes.

This sport is a crazy thing, and what happens, it's unpredictable.

My first kiss was actually in a graveyard.

I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.

Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.

Nonsensical decisions are made all the time in football and then really sensible decisions are made all the time. It really is the maddest business but everyone knows that. We all love it.