Sadiq Kahn Quotes

I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!

I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.

I am addicted to sport. Without sport, I feel bad.

I had an addiction to play baseball.

I love to do Pilates, Bar Method, and spin. I'm addicted.

I'm pretty addicted to it, so whether I'm home or on vacation, I need to run five days a week. It doesn't matter what the weather is, what the terrain is, where I am. I always need to get my miles in.

When you obsess about fitness goals they become unhealthy and impossible to achieve.

It's just such an addictive sport. Only now I can understand why ex-fighters come back. That addiction helps me set new goals and targets.

I'm a gym rat, I'm a workaholic.

When you start to ascertain a physique, you run that thing where you don't want to lose it. It catches you; it's like a hook.

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

I run because it always takes me where I want to go.

I'd rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You have to be passionate about something. Call it obsessed or whatever you want, but be obsessed about something. Obsessed people care. I'm passionate about so many things, it becomes an issue at certain points, but at least you have the ability to feel that much about something.

I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know - didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my friends, who I'd thought where slightly backward, had been so addicted to these children's books. They're like crack.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.

Once I find something I'm passionate about, I get this crazy drive.

Winning can be addictive

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.

That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

Once you've been overweight you never want to be overweight again, so you keep going, keep going, like for any addiction. Health can be an addiction, it doesn't have to be drugs or alcohol.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.