Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.

Brian Boitano

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

Jane Curtin

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if youre just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

Jamie Foxx

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Carroll Shelby

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

Alan Dershowitz

In representing criminal defendants especially guilty ones it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

Aimee Mullins

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Mia Kirshner

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

Mark E. Smith

If there were a hell for dumb decisions,

Joyce Thompson

I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.

Marty Roos

There were some good penalties and there were some dumb penalties.

Charles Dickens

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Bill Lawrence

I love television; I specifically love having a dumb character on a TV show.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Jerry Porter

We're not lacking for confidence, we're just lacking for wins. It's dumb to get frustrated now, it's Week 2. We have 14 more games to play.

Kurt Vonnegut

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.

Albert Einstein

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

Kevin Sorbo

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

Chris Matthews

Anybody can say anything they want. Hillary Clinton can control her own campaign.

Howard Hodgkin

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

Richard Baxter

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Virgil Thomson

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

Rick Warren

Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.