Quotes About Priorities

Look, that rookie year you got a lot going on. You got to get a house, you got to get a car, you have to move to a whole new city. I mean, there are so many things that are going on.

I want to spend as much time as I can with my kids, but I know the opportunities in athletics don't often come round, so I've just got to make the most of it.

I know that if I play well, money will come and not the other way round.

My life won't be ruined if I don't achieve all of my political goals.

I'm not in a real rush to be a big star.

I would love to have a child. It would be great for me and such a positive message for all the girls out there who don't want to rush their life or their life has taken different a direction, like me who's put their career first.

The most sacred thing is our family and our daughter and each other, everything else matters, but it doesn't really matter.

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

I know that being in the entertainment business... my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot and I wasn't really present.

It's easy to say, and a lot of people pay lip service, saying, 'I want to win.' But, well, everybody wants to win. What are you willing to sacrifice to be able to win? Are you going to sacrifice money? Are you going to sacrifice playing time? You gotta sacrifice something.

People may think that's not true, but everything I've done in this business, every sacrifice I made, every time I had guy come to me that I respect and go, 'Don't do that, you're Arn Anderson. You don't have to do that, just tell them no!' I went ahead and did whatever was requested to take care of my family.

My dad sacrificed his relationship with me so I'd be stronger for it. But I could never do it to my kids - I like to have a happy relationship with them.

Those who talk about the sacrifices that they make throughout a career, I do not understand too much. For me, the real sacrifice would be getting up early in the morning to work.

I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices.

Sometimes you want to experience life, but ultimately, you've got to make sacrifices and choose the right road.

There are many things that I value, and many of them have nothing to do with my salary.

I liked 'Rumours,' but to me, there was some point where the focus became the sales, not the music.

If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.

When it got to the point of sanity or money, I thought I'd rather have sanity.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

The reality is people are busy living their lives. People are taking their kids to school in the morning. People want to go to brunch on Saturdays. And that's OK.

I had this idea that I didn't want to have kids until my career was at the right point, until we have a house, until we have savings of at least this much ... None of that came true. It just happened.

I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.