Diego Della Valle Quotes

There are more important things in life than boxing.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

What's valuable to me has become clearer as I've got older. To me, it's about the value of your time and your day and the value of the people you spend it with.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.

There are several ways to mess up your life by fighting to make your calendar age match your felt age. I live in the Southwest, a part of the country with more than its share of fair skies, material wealth, and people who are trying not to be as old as they are.

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing.

Everybody needs money, obviously, but that's far from being the most important thing in the world to me.

Money is not the most important to me.

There's things in the life that should be more important than just tennis.

Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

As I've gotten older, I've really wanted to find more balance and calm.

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

Remember that when you're young and your career feels like the most important thing, the most important thing is love and the relationships you have with people - boyfriend, friends and family. It's good to remember that.

I think that when you become a mom... you don't really worry about the small stuff. I'm just way more centered. It makes you focus even more on what your goals are in life.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.