John Henry Newman Quotes

I like to play the guitar and the ukulele.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.

Can't you... I don't. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby.

Basketball isn't my job.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

I would never describe football as a job because it doesn't feel like a job.

I had a life outside of music too.

I have hobbies.

When I'm not boxing, I play instruments.

All we do when we're not making music is play video games, eat food and see movies.

When it stops being fun, that's when I'll stop playing.

I was just trying to play the game, having fun. It was a hobby for me at the time.

Golf during the day, music during the night - it don't get much better.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.

When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming.