Tim Cahill quotes

Tim Cahill is an Australian professional footballer known for his goal-scoring ability and dynamic play. A key figure for the Australian national team, he made significant contributions at multiple FIFA World Cups. He is celebrated as one of Australia’s greatest footballers and an iconic sports ambassador for the country. Here are 34 of his quotes:

For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance. (Tim Cahill)
Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa. View quote
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My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that. View quote
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Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn. View quote
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I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better. View quote
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In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten. View quote
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Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. View quote
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My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind. View quote
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Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth. View quote
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New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. View quote
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In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck. (Tim Cahill)
I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it. View quote
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You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. View quote
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I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. View quote
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Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece. View quote
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I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. View quote
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The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering. View quote
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My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism. View quote
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The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong. View quote
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The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore. View quote
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If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs. (Tim Cahill)
I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame. View quote
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No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance. View quote
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I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I'd made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn't have bothered me too much because I'd made it with a football team in England. View quote
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You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. View quote
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Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill - Image
Photo: billtnj, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: Australian Athlete
Born: December 6, 1979
Quotes count: 34