As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I’m focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I’m not going to slam it in its face.
Surfing is like golf: You’re always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It’s magic.
Wake Forest came knocking on the door, and I accepted that offer. It changed my life completely.
I do have a bit of empathy I suppose, but it has come more recently as I’m knocking on 30’s door and I think I’m getting there.
I got into a lot of fights. Then I started knocking people out, and they stopped.
I learned to surf for ‘Soul Surfer.’ Surfing is like golf: You’re always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It’s magic.
One day, you’re a nobody, and the next, you’re in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
I couldn’t go on an ’80s package show or anything like that. I have a lot more to give. If you go down that road completely I think you’ll stay with a certain type of audience. Again I’m not knocking it. People go for the fun of the hits, it’s what they’ve grown up with.
There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I’ve found a space where the terrain is different, where I’m embraced by people like me, and where I’m building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.
While I was writing ‘Stick Out Your Tongue’ in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It’s fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with. If we weren’t touring together, we’d be hunting in the off-season still and knocking around doing stuff, certainly.
Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call ‘the sedatives.’ And what you’re doing is just knocking your brain out. You’re not putting it into natural sleep.
It seems I was born with the gift of knocking people out.
I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think – really, truly think – that they’re doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.
A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
When I was a player, if you weren’t in the team you would be knocking on the manager’s door, saying, ‘Well, if I can’t play here, I’d like to play somewhere else.’
When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
