Quotes About Connection

Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.

Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I'd end up having these long chats with old women.

There is one thing that will never change in football. The centre forward is only as good as the people that are giving him the ball, and the people that are giving him the ball are only as good as the centre forward they are giving it to.

Maybe I can bring my own perspective and connect with people from my home area by giving them my two cents of a different angle.

If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.

When you see yourself as the center of things, it deprives you of a certain level of empathy.

There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

It's funny, I see my dad in myself when I say certain things or I do certain things. I'll say, 'That was my dad right there.'

I am not good at making people understand certain things.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

I wanted people to connect to me on that level where I can write about anything, but it would still make someone feel a certain way.

But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.

I didn't need a certificate to tell me about my relationship with Patrick, but I do feel different because of our marriage.

I don't know if I want to believe in the certificate called marriage, but I do believe in love.

I don't feel I'm a step above anyone on this team. I'm just another link in the chain.

I'm just another link in the chain.

The chairman, Mehmet Dalman, he was brilliant for me. He helped me left, right and centre, he lives aboard now but he was my shoulder.

All my mates are massive Leeds fans because I live in Wakefield, but my best friend in the entire world is the Middlesbrough chairman.

I'd like someone who challenges me, someone who is more beautiful in the inside than they are on the outside.