Quotes About Presence

When you're on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

The main thing is to be on the pitch and enjoy my football.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

I don't have a circus around me, and that's a choice. I like to be on Planet Earth as much as possible.

Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.

I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang.

Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

I can't be into plants. I'm never at home.

I'm on Instagram more than any other social platform.

I want my son to never know the mommy who would rather watch him play basketball than play with him.

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

But at least if you are with your kid in a playground, be there mentally as well as physically, even for 20 minutes. Focus means everything to a child.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.

Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.

I can sit and write clever things, but that never quite works as well as when I'm just chatting about stupid things in the moment.

I'm not dripping with charisma like many of my friends are. But I do have candour, which is close.

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

If you're not in someone's face, they're not going to remember you. So get yourself back into an acting class; get a coach. Do those things you did when you were 20 and wanted it so bad.

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

My family matters most to me, even though so much of our daily lives and commitments make it so difficult to be as present with those you love as you might wish.