Quotes About Involvement

With everything I do, I'm 100 percent involved. I don't really let anyone just take over and hear what's going to go on. I like to have full creative control, pretty much, and really be involved with everything.

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

When kids are 15 or 16, they should be playing more sports. I played football, basketball, cricket... Name any sport, and I played it.

In life it is easier to criticise people than be out there doing it yourself.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

Crowds can play massive parts in games, we all know that.

I really didn't put myself around the wrong crowds.

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.

I coached a team in Brixton - Brixton United - for a while. We won two cups. They are a good team, but I only coached. No playing.

Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.

My parents were childhood sweethearts that are now divorced as of 2010. My mother is Kelle Huston, who is also my current manager, and father is Adeyemi Huston, who is not involved in my life.

I worry that, given the way the 2016 election went, how cynical and how terrible politics seems, that young people will be less likely to get involved.

Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local level.

I don't really dabble into the politics of MMA too much.

I was a good daddy.

When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing.

I think it's a challenge, and I'm by no means perfect at it, nor is anybody, but I think what I would always tell other dads is to try to be present. Just try to be there.

Dads are not a risk to be managed, but a resource to be used for the benefit of the whole family.

It's important that dads take the opportunity to develop relationships with their children.

I actually got dared to audition for the dance team. All my track-and-field buddies dared me to audition, and I was one of the few guys who did it.

The thing about local government is they want to hear what local people think, but for the most part, their systems are so long, dull and bureaucratic that people only get involved when there's an issue they really care about.

I love participatory media, collective knowledge systems, user-generated content and the like, and spent much of my life and career participating in them and making them.