26 Quotes by Max Walker

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club – the footy club didn’t like it that much.

When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there’s always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham’s legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia’s characters, particularly in the commentary box.

About 1998, when ‘Wide World of Sports’ and the ‘Footy Show’ came to an end for me, I couldn’t type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you’re good enough.

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there’s an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn’t want to have half my brain sucked out.

It’s been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There’s no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn’t comfortable in myself then I wouldn’t be able to smile so much.