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.

Ayn Rand

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

Bobby Darin

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting

Claire Forlani

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

Billy Campbell

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Artie Lange

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

Aristotle

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Dave Mustaine

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Lorrie Moore

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Seth MacFarlane

If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.

Francis Bacon

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

George Bernard Shaw

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Carrie Underwood

If you stick to what you know; you sell yourself short.

Christopher Eccleston

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

Gordon Bethune

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.