Quotes About Gratitude

It's been marvellous. I've had a fantastic career.

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.

We're incredibly lucky and I get to work with my best mate - I don't know why I'd ever want to stop doing that really.

Material things don't matter.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

I'm really not a materialistic person.

I honestly do feel like the luckiest man alive. I have a beautiful daughter, an amazing wife and not everyone has that. My close mates always laugh at me because I say I'm blessed, but I don't know what I did to deserve it.

I love 'The Matrix' a lot - I am lucky and blessed to be a part of it, and I believe in it.

I will say this: Boy, did I get lucky to work with Matt Drudge and Arianna Huffington.

My kids have really brought me into maturity on another level and I really appreciate them for that.

If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.

I give the maximum. If things go well, I'm happy for myself, for the team, for the club, for the fans.

I am enjoying everything football has given me, and I want to enjoy to the maximum every chance I am allowed.

If I have to work in McDonalds, fine - I had a really great run and made a living at music for 20 years, and how many other people can say that?

I have a picture on my phone of me and Audra McDonald from when I went stage door-ing at 'Ragtime' in high school. I always keep it there because I try to remember how important that was to me.

I will say this: love Vince McMahon or hate Vince McMahon, no matter what you feel about him, he has always treated me well.

If I have the perfect meal and I'm with the person I love most - what more can you want out of life?

It took me a while to accept everything, but I am so grateful for the way my parents raised me. It's my life, it's unique, and I think it's so meaningful to me as I get older.

Canton has meant a lot to me.

I wasn't meant to be famous. I've been blessed.

I'm blessed beyond measures to play the sport that I love and hopefully have longevity.

My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and that's what I remember now, having my own child. I think, 'Oh so what?' Kids don't go around the house seeing what's wrong with it.

When I won medals, I think I was doing something for my employers also. I am making them proud.