M.C. Steve Quotes

If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.

I find it difficult to breathe when l'm in the space. There seems to be no oxygen. I want to put people into a situation where they're sensitive to themselves watching the piece.

If you want to be like me, work hard and believe in it, and if you don't believe in it, get rid of it.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year.

Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

I ain't no author, man . . . my writing skills are not of "New York Times" best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

You think that God positioned you here so you can just have it all to yourself? God blesses you to become a blessing. That's the deal.

Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

Think about laughing and laugh about thinking.

The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

I don't want to have the threat of the sky falling on my head or some idiot pushing some button that sets off World War Three.

Music is about giving and about searching and so that is the spirit....because without spirit, music is just notes.

You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

I think you can get too focused on the championship and forget how rewarding it is to be part of a team.

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.

I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball.

My goal is to eliminate positions where I can't function.

I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

We have to remember in that Bloomberg poll, strong Republican support for [Donald ]Trump's proposal, but the country at large - strong opposition to that support.

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.

Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you.

I never looked around me because it might freak me out, because if you're up on a mountain you don't wanna like, look down.

I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder.

I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't worth it.

I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my performances.

I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.

That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!

You better get it while you can

What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.

. . . it's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.