My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid, you can be an astronaut or a ballerina or a singer, but as a grown person, you need to go and get a job.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.
I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next!
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.
What am I going to do if I stop fighting? Study? Soccer?
The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.
The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
Life should be great rather than long.
As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
I think my best years are ahead of me and that's exciting.
We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.
One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
