Art Donovan Quotes

Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that every day can't be tops. Life is not like that - it's up and down.

There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be there forever. That's why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I'm sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I'm No. 55 on the football field.

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

I think it's important not to get carried away when you are successful - and not to let yourself feel gloomy when times are bad.

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

Football is an important part of my life, but not everything.

I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.

Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

There's more to life than football, right?

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

You have to know how to keep things in perspective.

So many times in today's society, we can put football No. 1. And I've done it in my life at certain times. You put football number one, this game is more important than anything else. Well, really, it's not. It's just a game.

Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.

When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.

The Lord has blessed me to play this game. I'm going to try to play it as long as I can. But at the same time, I want to be able to watch my kids grow up, so I've gotten to where I'm a little more mild, and I don't take golf as seriously as I did in the earlier years of my career.

Cricket was a splendid chapter of my life; indeed, it made me what I am today. However, cricket alone isn't the only flavour of life. Sometimes, indeed, we tend to take sports too seriously and life too casually.

Football is a game. It's something I love to do. But there are so many things in life that are more important.

Football is just one part of me. It's not the be-all, end all.

Everybody has their good days and their bad days, there's always two sides to a story.

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

Some moments I feel sad, some moments I'm happy. Overall, I'm proud.