Quotes About Priorities

One thing I've learnt is not to have a bucket list.

The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?

I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'

I will never, ever balance a budget on the backs of our seniors.

Money is not all in life, and not in football, but it's quite important, and to have the lowest budget in the league means to finish in the top 10 may be an even bigger result.

I don't know if there's ever been a budget that anyone has been 100 percent happy with.

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no way I would ever accept austerity.

Mainstream or budget films don't matter to me. What matters is the script, the director and the part, not necessarily in that order though.

I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

I think any smart businessman would go where the money is bigger, but I also feel like you don't forget your roots either.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I'm so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I'm just madly in love with.

I was never money conscious. I would never have succeeded if I thought I was going to be a millionaire.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

The thing that frustrated me is that some people think success is all measured by money.

I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this business a certain way. Everybody has a certain style and opportunities that are presented to them during your career. When it's over, I'll be judged by that. I care more about the people I work with.

Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.