Jan Vertonghen Quotes

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

To be honest, I kind of dress like a 15-year-old boy. And I probably live like a 15-year-old boy, too.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

I got very carried away with my 'Harry Potter' life and we did have school but I didn't study. I just had fun.

Unless I really make an effort, I quite enjoy looking a bit off and something looking a bit wrong. That's how I feel most comfortable. If anything, it's just because I'm, like, very scatty and not very good at putting stuff together.

I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.

I'm not worried about a title. It's just go and have fun.

I'm not one of those typical receivers who's like a robot in the slot or outside.

I'm not the kind of singer that's always super, super careful.

I've always been the kind of guy to take it day by day with not a whole lot of worries.

I haven't really made plans for the future; I'm just enjoying the moment, going with the flow. I haven't really had time to mortify myself thinking about the future.

I think if you have a good attitude and go in with no pressure or expectations, just for a chance to play with all these talented people and do your thing, then it's always a blast!

I just go out there and play.

Street football features all the basics of football: you get a lot of touches on the ball, it is fast, teaches you to think quickly and to be creative.

I don't take anything too seriously. If I do, I realize pretty quickly that's why I'm uncomfortable.

Have you seen Frances?” He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooting about in the bushes.” Anne followed his gaze uneasily. “Rooting?” “She told me she was practicing for the next play.” Anne blinked at him, not following. “For when she gets to be a unicorn.” “Oh, of course.” She chuckled. “She is rather tenacious, that one.

Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.

Everybody's serious but me.

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

I don't think men see any lusty sexiness in me. The appealing thing is an air of abandonment. Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

What's cool about renting is that you don't care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number-one thing. Just going "Sure, you can jump off the roof. I think that's safe! Let's just paint on the walls! I bet the beer bottle will break before it shatters the window!" Not caring about the environment is a plus. And a ton of booze. And underage kids. That just ups the excitement value of the party, like, "Oh my God, we could all go to prison."

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

You gotta have a little kid in you to play football.

Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.