Nick Quotes

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

Follow your gut, make a choice, and throw yourself into it. If you make a mistake, then you have merely afforded yourself a valuable lesson.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Chicago-style pizza.

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

I encourage you to accept that you may not be able to see a path right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

Are you living in a computer simulation?

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

The roster that we have today may change tomorrow. It is what it is for right now.

If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It's about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.

Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.

I never met a bitter person who was thankful. Or a thankful person who was bitter.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money... but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

I like to think I'm just talkin' in my defense.

Pain is Pain. Broken is Broken. FEAR is the Biggest Disability of all. And will PARALYZE you More Than Being in a Wheelchair.

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

I've never been interested in being relevant.

Some injuries heal more quickly if you keep moving.

I would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am.

Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.

In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it.

I can pass a drug test in eight days with herbal cleansers. I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day. I'll be fine.

When God doesn't change a circumstance, He can change our hearts in knowing that He can change all things for the good.

Technically, we're all half centaur.

Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it's me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can't beat brats.

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

You have arms and legs, but don't know what to do with your lives.

Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.