Quotes About Priorities

Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.

When you lose things like football, which is the game I love - and this is the most important thing in my life - it really puts everything in perspective.

Being a father now puts life in perspective. My whole life it's all been about trying to win. And now I'm trying to make a better life for my son than I've had.

There's a lot of things in my life that are more important I have to think about than what someone puts in the newspaper, or says on TV.

Having a kid, it really puts a lot of things in perspective, and really kind of shows you what love is, and what it should be and what impact it should have on your life.

Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Donald Trump should be focused on how to fix the country, not an award show.

I appreciate what I have and, when people called me flash in the past, it hurt. I read an article not long ago saying I had given up all the bling and was concentrating on my football. Forget the football articles, that was one of the most satisfying things I have ever read about myself.

If I flew commercial, I'd have to stop 65% of what I'm doing.

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

For all the amazing things we've got to do, there's always the flip side of life kind of passed us by in other ways.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

Why should I pay for business? Fly coach, you arrive at the same time.

If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.

When I started flying, I realized how enjoyable it was, and flying became my main focus while engineering went on the back burner.

My mom liked to have us travel in first class with her. She's like, 'I work for my money, and I want my kids to live a certain kind of way.' My dad used to get so mad at my mom for flying us first class. So it was a clash on that.

If I have to fly economy, there is no way I am flying more than two and a half hours. I am just not doing long-haul economy flights. I did it once to the Caribbean and never again.

I try to keep focused on the things that really make me happy and just do those same things.

I think I'm very focused and am quite a good multitasker, and I'm quite driven in knowing what my responsibilities are to my family and knowing what I've got to do to do that.

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.