Quotes About Passion

I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.

I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.

This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

I saw Angus Young running around in a schoolboy uniform shredding on the guitar and just thought, 'That looks like a cool job.'

Just to be able to put on the uniform in general is a blessing, and when it says Red Sox on it, it makes it that much better.

I play hard for my ballclub. Whatever uniform I put on, I'm going to bleed and die.

For me, I'm honored to be able to wear a Canadiens uniform for the rest of my career. I can't really imagine playing for anybody else, to be honest.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.

I refuse to make uninspired music.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

It's hard to get burned out or uninspired, man.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing. My parents were so uninterested in me making music.

What was exciting to me in talking to Kogonada was I was just very convinced that he was a very real and pure artist. He was so uninterested in the commercial game.

I think it would be a bit miserable going out with somebody who was totally uninterested in food.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.

The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with what they were doing.