Daley Thompson Quotes

When I first retired from the game, I had times in my life when the days just wouldn't move.

After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.

There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s .

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.

My nickname used to be Moses - still is Moses - for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.

I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.

I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.

'The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.