Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hearns

Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.

Eric Heiden

When I was skating, there was ice only for a really short period of time. So we would have to do a lot of other cross training type things.

Rafer Johnson

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

Joe DiMaggio

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time, I owe him my best.

Kit Williams

The reason the ancient Chinese chose south is probably because north was inauspicious to them. That was where the marauding hordes came from.

Isiah Thomas

There is not a player on this roster now, who doesn't understand or believe that if he is not performing, I don't have problems getting rid of them.

Lee Trevino

There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Jerry Kramer

We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

Sarah Hughes

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

Michael Brady

elected to make tough decisions, and this was one of them.

Gore Vidal

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Gabrielle Giffords

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Andy Garcia

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Albert Einstein

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

David Wright

We had a lot of support from the state and from individual investors and from institutions.

Christina Hendricks

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Stephen McCausland

In order to get an individual profile, you have to register.

Liberace

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Andy Serkis

When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.

Ryan Lochte

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

Rick Riordan

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

Oliver Herford

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

Laure Manaudou

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

Linda Ellerbee

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time....

Adam Gopnik

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Cyril Connolly

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.