Quotes About Obsession

Most college athletes are obsessed with getting to the pros, and many of them have proved they will do anything to get there, even if it's something unethical.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Unfortunately, like, homework and school wasn't the thing that I was obsessing over. It was, you know, music and making music and how to like - and drum machines. And we met Rick Rubin, and Rick Rubin had a drum machine. So I would just cut school and go to his house - his dorm room.

Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor.

You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Anybody who knows me knows that I don't just love this sport, I am in love with it. I am really in love with this sport. I am obsessed with boxing. I eat, breathe and sleep it. You know, I do it all; this is my life. This is not a hobby for me. This is a lifestyle for me, and I address it accordingly. I take it very, very seriously.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.

Competitive people, especially in sports, want to learn about everything. So when you're interested in something, you become a bit obsessive. You start to research it and ask questions about it, and before you know it, you have a serious hobby because of how you're programmed.

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Deflategate. I mean it's kind of idiotic in one way. On the other hand, look how totally obsessed we are with the fact that the New England Patriots may have taken, I don't know, a half-pound or a pound square inch of air pressure out of the footballs. We love it.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

I've got a stack of the 'Walking Dead' comic books next to my bed here.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.