Quotes About Passion

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.

When you lose things like football, which is the game I love - and this is the most important thing in my life - it really puts everything in perspective.

I get very picky. There's sort of a line you have to walk between working and doing something you actually want to be a part of, as opposed to just working for the work. That often puts you in a place where you have to choose whether or not you want to wait for good material to come along.

For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

I think being a freelancer really taught me to hustle and gave me respect for anyone who puts it on the line every day for something creative.

I just make my Boosie music and that puts me in my own lane.

I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.

It's just about putting in the work and really putting in time and effort to something you love.

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like 'Destiny's Child's', so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn't love.

I was always the kid who was putting on plays, and so I have no idea how to describe it. I just have always wanted to be an actor.

Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

Music for me was always life changing. So if I'm putting out crap music, then I have not done what I came to accomplish.

When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up this bittersweet connection to our mortality.

I love putting on shows. I absolutely adore it - that's why I've been doing it now for so long.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.

It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own gigs and putting on a lot of our own shows. We were trying to get our actual music across, trying to make a connection there.

And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.

For me, coaching in the NFL doesn't fit. I coach high-school football, so I get my fix.

I was fixated on Prince's 'Black Album' for a long time.