"I enjoy the competition and whatever it takes throughout the competition, I will do it."

“Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.”

“Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.”

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

“The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.”

Source : "Want to be happy? Slow down". Interview with Guy Raz, ideas.ted.com. January 23, 2015.

“A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man would endure hardship. Conversely, if a man endures hardships where a woodsman could be comfortable, it argues not his toughness, but his ignorance or foolishness, which is exactly the case with our blatant friend of the drawing-room reputation.”

“'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.”

“My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.”

Source : Speech at Runcorn, 12 Feb. 1987, in Guardian 13 Feb. 1987

“In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.”

“When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus. One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working. Because when there's all this stuff going on, for me to be able to put on headphones and listen to music helps me keep my focus,. A big part of creating a character for me is finding the general palette for what kind of music I'm going to be listening to.”