Quotes on Ifs

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.