Andrew Flintoff Quotes

I have what you might call the South Pole and the North Pole. I have my team and my work, which I do on one side, and I have my family and my home on the other side. Both have nothing really to do with each other.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

From a very young age, I had this idea that if you are very successful in your career, and you're giving all of your attention to that, then your family life... possibly will not flourish as it might.

Fighting is fighting. Family life is family life. I need a distinct barrier between the two. Obviously, my family dictate how I'm feeling and my head space. But work's work.

A lot of my personal life feels very separate from my music.

I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.

It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

When you're with your family you're with them and when you're working you're doing that. I definitely try to separate the time when I'm working and when I have my personal time.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.

Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.