Quotes About Priorities

There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

Love is a better master than duty.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.

Le cose più preziose della vita non sono quelle che si comprano con il danaro

The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible.

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

Today alcohol and tobacco are available, and people spend considerably more on these very unsatisfactory euphorics, pseudo-stimulants and sedatives than they are ready to spend on the education of their children.

Ustedes piensan primero en obtener la producción más grande posible en el menor tiempo posible. Nosotros pensamos primero en los seres humanos y en sus satisfacciones. El cambio de trabajo no es lo mejor para obtener una gran producción en pocos días. Pero a la mayoría de la gente le gusta más que hacer un solo trabajo toda la vida. Si se trata de elegir entre la eficiencia mecánica y la satisfacción humana, elegimos la satisfacción.

They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest secondary and subordinate.