Olly Murs Quotes

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

I want to travel the world and enjoy things, so if you gave me $50 million and said, 'You can never perform again,' I probably would take it and be fine with it.

When I left school, I went backpacking around the world for two years.

When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

I think I'll always flutter all over. I'd like to live in different parts of the world - I'd love to live in Tuscany for a few months.

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

I've been to Australia a couple of times, but never to the north or the centre. I would love to see Ayers Rock.

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.

My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people who tell me they can't travel, 'How much did you spend at the mall this year? How many times did you eat out? Take that money and go.'

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.