Craig Bellamy Quotes

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

I got into pro ball at 18 and played until I was almost 39, non-stop.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

I've been out for four months and when you have been out that long you start to miss the game and when you are out there you realise just how much you really do live it and enjoy it.

You're investing in a different part of your life that is really important. It's not as important when you're a kid and you don't require sleep, and you don't get hung over, and you can fire on all cylinders. At 32 I don't consider myself old by any means, but you just find yourself in a place where you can't do everything the way you once did, and you have to take time to reflect and I think that's really important, because you get to appreciate what you have, and to enjoy it.

I love cricket and I have no intention to retire

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

I've done more than I thought I was ever going to do. I've had a very long and very satisfying career.

You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

My life is bigger than basketball.

From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.

I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I worked hard at that. That made me good enough to play in college and then I wanted to be a good college quarterback. During college I played well enough to make it into the NFL. I never took it for granted and really wanted to play hard at each level and I have always had a lot of fun doing what I wanted to do.

I think everything happens for a reason and all of my choices have led me up to my solo album and made me stronger, not only as an artist but as a person. I want to do more the Black Eyed Peas albums and more of my own albums. I'm in this for the long run.

Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.

I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children and my family.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet.

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

I've already spent a lot of my life doing what makes me go. There's a life out there while I'm still young, able to move, able to just sit at peace in the water - I should be spending much more time doing that, rather than continuing to go through this artistic struggle.