Quotes About Prioritization

I missed my homecoming for a rehearsal.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.

That's one of the things that is hardest about being the Bachelor. You often have to end relationships that are actually going quite well, just because your time together is up. If other relationships are further along, you have to go with your gut and follow your heart.

We believe in constructing the portfolio so that we put our biggest amount of money in our highest-conviction idea, and then we view the other ideas relative to that.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

In my situation there are often things I need to do for the team, so when I get the chance to relax it's all I want to do.

You do get a chance to think about things when you're at home, but that is when you want to relax and forget about football for a bit. Honestly, you don't really get time to stop and think about things. We have a job to do. That is all we concentrate on, going game by game.

Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.

With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.

That's the great thing about being a director. You have your list of things you have to worry about and things you don't have to worry about. If you can hire someone or cast someone who equates to not having to worry about, it's great!

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

Having a relationship with Jesus and making him the center of everything I do is the most important thing to me in hockey and whatever I am doing.

The craziest thing I've done for love? Put my life on hold.

If you have three children under the age of four, as I did, you have to make choices, because you cannot hold hands with all of them.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

The only thing that's difficult is sometimes it's nice to be able to separate your home life from training life.

I thought about the problems I had growing up: how I prioritised football over school, but people were telling me I wouldn't make it, that it wasn't possible. The thing is, I did make it, thanks to my own will and determination and the help of some people I had around me in my hometown.

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

We would always rush to do our homework because after work, we knew that it was football.

Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.

I don't really spend a lot of time discounting the things I'm doing in hopes that I could be doing something else.