Jewel Quotes

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

You can have it all, but not all at once.

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

If something's important to you, you make time for it.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.

You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

I'm not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can't have personal relationships like other people do. I can't spend time on that.

Fellas, if you find a good woman, don't be scared of commitment. It is good for you. It causes you to grow up and deal with your selfishness like nothing else.

Being a baseball player is most important, first and foremost. Obviously, there are other obligations that come with everything. You just need to balance it and take it in stride, but at the same time, be mindful of your time and prioritize everything and what is most beneficial.

I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

I think if somebody doesn't have the time to work on a relationship, then they shouldn't get into it.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.