Quotes About Priorities

I want my son to never know the mommy who would rather watch him play basketball than play with him.

I can be a friend from a million miles away. I can play basketball in China. The only thing I can't do is be a father. I missed my kids' first basketball game. I missed birthdays. I can talk to you from a million miles away, but I was missing the dad part of life.

My job's to play basketball. My job's not to be here to be friends with anybody.

I can care less what people say about me. If I can go to the facility, work out, play football, and go home, that's what I would do. I'm a big-time football guy. I could care less about the outside.

All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.

For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.

I played football and lacrosse in high school. They wanted me to play football at Amherst, which I did not do because my schedule was full enough as it was. But over the course of my student days, I played pretty much every sport out there.

Money is not important to me. I've got enough. The organization has extremely blessed me. I'm here to play football, and that's what I want to be known as.

Money is important, but the most important thing for me is to play football, and then I'm happy. OK, you want to earn a good amount of money to be secure, but if I chose money, I would go to Russia and already have a lot more. I like to play football, and that is it.

I go along, play football, work as hard as I can, play as hard as I can, and then go home and spend time with my wife and kids.

I've made a lot of money, I'm happy where I'm at. I've got a good family - I don't really need to play football.

I can't play football forever, I am not a greedy person.

Now that I know the dangers? Yes, I still would do it again. Why? 'Cause look at me. Look at my family. They're able to eat, they're able to have food and shelter over their head. Would I play football again? Yes.

It's weird to think about money and all that other stuff. I really just want to play football.

OK, I'm with my close family but I'm here to play football. I can't lie. If it weren't for that, I would be back in Argentina.

It's alright people saying they get £100,000-a-week, they get paid well or whatever, but they want to play football.

It doesn't really matter how much you've got saved up in your bank account. If someone offers you £10 million to play football for a year in a beautiful part of the world, who would turn that down?

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

My life is to play golf, sit home with the wife and kids, and do things with the family more than I used to.

I don't play golf or have sports hobbies. Just my two businesses and my family.

It's true I was approached for 'Heroine' but I couldn't do the film as the dates were clashing with Kamaleswar Mukherjee's film 'Meghe Dhaka Tara' based on the life of Ritwik Ghatak, where I played the lead.

If I was a second-team player, I probably would have gone to uni.

At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

All that chatter you hear from yuppie parents at the playground about how expensive it is to 'do' bathrooms? It's all true. Every word, and worse.