Quotes About Priorities

I can live without football. There are more important things in life.

My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around.

The most important things in life have nothing to do with things.

For me, the most important things are me, myself, and my family.

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

Football is my life, but there are more important things in life.

Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

When you're in the NBA, you think about playing time, how to make your coach happy or if you're winning. It really just took my focus off some of the most important things.

Now, I'm thinking about more important things: my family, kids, my career.

Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.

Money has never been important. Having a coach who wants me and who wants to play me, having a good fanbase and an environment in which I am happy - these are the important things to me.

For me, family and football are the most important things. They are in the same level.

My religion and my family are the two most important things in my life. But I love basketball.

When you work too much, it affects your health. Then you start working out and dieting. And, more importantly, you miss your family.

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.

I want to be known as a Christian baseball player and I'm still trying to grow into that. But in the end, I want to be more Christian than baseball player.

In the end, you have to do what makes you happy - the people who love you and are around you are all that matters.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

In the past, my family made a lot of sacrifices. We never got to spend much time together because I was always training. I think now I need to spend as much time as I can with them. This is the life I should have.

Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.

I would say the difference between 'old Mark' and post-stroke Mark ... is that pre-stroke Mark was a major micromanager. I just don't have the time or inclination to micromanage as much as I used to.

The first time I had disposable income, the two things I cared most about were a television and a couch.