Mat Kearney Quotes

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

I grew up in an athletic family. My dad played and my brother currently plays professional soccer, so I'm athletic.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

I look at a guy like The Rock - how he started with his natural ability in sports but gravitated into Hollywood - as a model for what's possible.

It will be very nice to meet Jordi Alba. We both play with speed, and it will be a very challenging mini-game. Who would win in a 100 metres race? I don't know.

I was a big kid and a big athlete, but let's be honest: I don't know diddly about football.

I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it.

You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.'

I am not very tall but I am intelligent as a soccer player.

A big part of what kept me focused on the music was already failing with basketball. I played basketball all of my life. When basketball didn't work, I knew that I had to make it in whatever I decided to do next.

When people come up to me and are like, 'I really like your music,' it feels good to know that it's not all about football for me anymore.

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

I have no such ambition of becoming an actor. I want to grow as a musician, singer and songwriter.

Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.

I had never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would actually be singing on a top 10 Billboard song.

I love Gino Vannelli! I love every one of his albums. He's one of my favourite songwriters - straight up.

I played American football, but I did my best work with baseball.

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

I grew up playing sports, and my dad was always really into that, very passionate about that, as was I, but even my passion for music far outweighs what it was for sports. That's hard for me to believe. And it's hard for me to believe that my parents' passion for music far outweighs their passion for sports, but it does.

All I ever thought about was music and being a musician.

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

I was a pitcher, played third base, shortstop. I was good at all the positions and great at none. All it takes is a .111 lifetime batting average to make you go into acting.