Quotes About Balance

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

I write right-handed. I play soccer with my left leg. When I hold stuff - like a bag or a plate or something - it's better if I have it in my left hand.

I was on the math team, and I was on the soccer team.

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

I decided to have a life: to become - pardon the expression - a soccer mom.

I want to see my kids for dinner. I want to put them down at night. I want to see their soccer games after school.

At six years old, our son had friends who played soccer from 4 P.M. to 7 P.M., Monday through Friday. A six-year-old practicing as much as a Division I athlete.

Of course I have other passions and other interests, but soccer's always my priority.

I realized I couldn't raise two kids, coach soccer, be on the PTA, teach full time, and do all the administrative bookkeeping. I do need to sleep four or five hours a day.

I just want to be good at soccer and have a normal life; it is a little ironic that you can't have both.

It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule.

Having a family has helped a lot with my partner, my son. It helped me focus on soccer.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

I had to play for a soccer team, I had to be an athlete, I had to make straight As. I was very hard on myself, and it paid off now.

When I was a kid, I mix watching soccer and the U.S. Open, that's it.

When I am working, I know this is my work so I can be focused for three hours, four hours, or whatever, and then outside I am a person like you or the children playing soccer in the street.

The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

If I was at home, I'd find myself checking email and looking at the Internet when I should be working. In the library, I can get an awful lot done in a couple of hours, but it can become quite sociable, which you have to watch out for. There are a lot of people you can pop out and have a coffee with.

I was always listening to music on headphones or working on something on my computer. I realised it wasn't healthy to be so reliant on creating stuff. I needed to be more sociable.

When you're working so much, it's so hard. When you do have time off, or when I had time off, rather than going out and seeing loads of people and being really sociable, I was always quite a homebody.