Matt Sydal Quotes

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

As artists, we are blessed to be able to make money but, on the same note, are held accountable for our federal tax obligations just like everyone else.

We all have to pay our bills. We all have to pay our taxes. Straight up.

I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me.

Most people don't realize the amount of tax forms the small business guy has to go through.

I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

Remember: If the IRS suspects you haven't reported income, it can challenge returns from the past six years. So if you are self-employed or have multiple income sources, hold on to six years of files to be absolutely safe.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

Use an accountant the first time you file your taxes after becoming a freelancer. It will be worth it.

You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years.

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.

Wrestling is a lot like any other workplace. You don't really talk religion or politics. But we are all independent contractors, so we pay our taxes quarterly. And we talk about taxes.

"OK, well everyone makes a mistake, right?" But then when you think it probably happened again that's when you think: "Shame on you once and shame on me twice, or however that saying goes." But everyone's been down that road. It's not about the little things anymore, but the major things that tell you if you don't move on at that point then I'm a fool.

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.

I may not be perfect, but I'm trying.

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.