Quotes About Passion

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

I live for the Red Sox. I thoroughly enjoy them. For whatever reason, baseball has been a lot more fun for me in recent years. I loosely follow the Patriots and I root for them. I loosely follow the Celtics and then it gets to playoff time and I don't miss a game. Same with the Bruins. I'm not the diehard fan anymore.

While I was in high school, I saw Sutton Foster in 'Thoroughly Modern Millie,' and she was the one that was most inspiring to me for sure. I saw 'Millie' 6 times in a span of two years or so.

So I view acting as a thoroughly involved performance with the maximum of sincerity and devotion.

When I like something, I thoroughly pursue it. That hasn't changed since I was in high school.

I thoroughly enjoy this profession and everything that goes into it - from improving your own guys and also the game-planning and studying the opponents. I enjoy that, I really do.

I guess I do what I like and enjoy my job thoroughly, that reflects on my face.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

I'm not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can't have personal relationships like other people do. I can't spend time on that.

'Thou shalt not bore' is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Even though I haven't released a song since 2010, I have still performed, so I don't feel I have been completely away from music. I have been away on a mainstream level, of course. But releasing a single this way - on my own independent record label - is more fun.

Though my first love is cricket, I was never away from any other disciplines too.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

Music composition was a creative call for me, and it gives me a kick. But I never thought that I would ever sing professionally, even though I used to sing a lot.

I think there's only eight songs on 'Born to Run' - I don't think it's much more than 35 minutes long. But as you move into it, where every song comes up in the sequence makes a lot of sense - though we weren't thinking about it; we were going on instinct at the time.

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.