Quotes About Priorities

They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.

I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it's not something I love. You have to let things go that are not for you.

My kids know who I am on the basketball court, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter about the basketball. I am their dad, and that is all that matters.

At the end of the day, you're a person before you are a basketball player.

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things.

I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy.

You could take everything off me tomorrow, I'll still be happy. So long as my family are living very close together, that's all that matters, really, for me.

Sometimes it's more than you can bear to be on the road and take care of all that other stuff.

I have never been able to bear people who are obsessed with beauty.

I got a beautiful wife and beautiful, healthy children, and that's really all you can ask for.

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

I love to roll out of bed and throw something on. I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

It's not like I'm back for bath-time and bedtime for the children. You're back when they are asleep and you go out before they wake up. Really, that time when they are young goes all too quickly.

The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.

We are taught these days that being famous is more important than actually doing something.

I know that life is much more than football. We have family and it's all about being happy and healthy.

My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.

I had never thought of settling down. I had started believing I was always going to live alone. Marriage was the last thing on my agenda.

I live way below my means.

My wife and kids mean more than the belt or UFC or anything else to me.

I don't care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.

I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.

The belt will grow dust and sit on the mantelpiece, but it's not about the belt. It's about how I can be as a father, as a human being that matters to me.