Quotes About Priorities

My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.

I wouldn't have went to school if I wasn't playing football.

When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

Some say we play at PSG for the money but it's not the case. If a player plays for money, he'll go to China.

Am I trying to win the approval of human beings or God? If I were still trying to please people I would not be a servant of Christ.

I'm not interested in younger men for the same reason most women aren't interested in younger men; I don't have time to make an extra packed lunch every morning. Please. I'm busy enough already.

Some people won't like me; that's just human nature. I battled with that for years, trying to please people, but now I haven't got time to win people over! I've got nappies to change!

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

The notion that marriage is an impediment to commitments to the larger community is a long-standing one - and one reason early Christians did not place the institution at the top of their moral hierarchy, complaining that married couples cared more about pleasing each other than doing the Lord's work.

The only person I worry about pleasing is God, my husband, my family, and myself.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Apart from my dad, James is the most driven man I've ever met. They both have the attitude that there's plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I'm getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, 'Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.'

But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy.

A family is something that I definitely want, but I'm 26, so I have plenty of time, and I try not to kind of confuse the two because, if I'm lucky enough, I want to make having a baby a personal decision rather than a career-defined one.

So to me, life is more than just money and making it to the NFL. Life's about memories, life is about experiences, and I feel like when players just plug in for three years and run to the NFL as quickly as they can, I feel like they're, without knowing it until they get older, taking themselves away from a really good memory.

Anna would be just as happy with me if I were a plumber. As a matter of fact, when she married me, I was working at a bank and living at home. I didn't move out until I was 29!

I'm not in the sport to make money, but that's a big plus.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.