Neil Young Quotes

Anything I do, I do fanatically.

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

I am a zealot, and I am wildly proud of it.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

From the time I was 11 until I was 23 and met my wife, wrestling was all I cared about. It was an obsession, and that's why I think I ended up making it. There was no other option for me.

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Football is all I know.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.