Quotes About Passion

I was the kid who at 12 years old went to NBC studio tours, and I would just answer all these trivia questions on the tour that the pages would ask about 'SNL'. I was that kid.

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.

Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

I never really listened to any particular trombone players.

Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.

When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.

I will give everything to help Arsenal win trophies and make the fans happy.

For me, it's about the tennis and the trophies. I'm not motivated by money.

It's never been about money. I talk about winning trophies throughout my career. That's all I talk about.

If we want to fight at the end of the season for big things and to lift trophies, you need to keep that intensity always.

There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it's all about winning the trophies, really. It's not like golf.

I grew up playing squash. I have all these squash trophies in my room... I was, like, third in the country.

I realized in the five years off, what I missed was being around the young people, the organization, the practice, the fourth quarter of the game where you're behind, trying to get back to win the game late. It's not about the rings and trophies and money, that's not what you got into it for.

In my country, we say that football is like a huge plate of food. Well, I want to eat everything because I want to win every trophy I can for City.

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

Our country craves for the trophy of the African Cup of Nations. I am craving for such a trophy in my career.

It's not that I don't like cricket. I have played first class cricket and represented Delhi in the Ranji Trophy as a spinner, but at the same time my inclination to become an actor was very strong.

I go out there because I love tennis and I love playing. To hold the trophy in the end, you know, it's amazing.

In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.