Quotes About Purpose

This is what I feel like I was born to do is play football, and I love it.

I play football, but at the end of the day, it doesn't define me.

I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

I don't play golf for fame.

If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.

I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records.

I made one rule for myself, and I really try to live it: Play music you love, with people you love, for people you love. If I can't be that kind of musician, I'll drive a cab.

I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.

That's what I wanted to do was play music.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.

Every player has a chip on their shoulder about something.

Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.

Football's a part of me. If I'm not playing, then I'm not me.

Destiny plays a very important role in my life.

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?

I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.

We're not trying to be everything for everybody. We're not trying to please the masses.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

I'm not trying to please everybody. I'm just trying to play for one team and do it the right way.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.