Alain de Botton Quotes

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

I had to take false steps and go through hard times to come out to where I am now. I can't imagine living without acting. It's not easy, and I don't disrespect anyone who steps out of it after a certain point. Having a family and a house is cool. It's not a betrayal. But if you're going to be an actor, it has to be more than a passing interest.

My hockey comes first compared to everything else.

Nothing in life is more exhilarating than fighting for something larger than you.

I don't really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my sister's wedding because I was at a U17 camp. There were moments like that growing up when I felt like I focused too much on soccer. But that's probably the reason I am where I am today.

On hindsight, I feel I should have given more time to sports. But I really got bitten by the acting bug.

Growing up all I wanted to do was score goals and celebrate with fans - somewhere in that I got lost. Football came second and it shouldn't have.

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

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

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

I've spent my life following my passion.

Only when a man will not do some things is he capable of doing great things.

No matter how busy I am, I find time for dance.

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

I always put my boxing first.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing.

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

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've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.