Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Mullen

Athletes face some of the same issues any student deals with: academics, family and personal issues, career or educational path changes. Each person has a unique set of circumstances that lead to decisions they make.

Ken Slappy

I understand that (football) is his focus, but he's a good athlete and in basketball you can always use good athletes. He's 6-2 and he's tough. I can put him in the game and he won't be afraid.

Arthur Ashe

Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

Edwin Moses

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Derrick Rose

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

Dave Peterson

We had a very encouraging effort from many of our athletes for the first outdoor meet.

Artie Lange

I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

Dave Kohnen

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Lloyd Carr

Vince Young is the finest athlete I've ever been on the field with.

Craig Swartout

Sometimes, because they're young, they don't harness their emotions like they're supposed to and it can hurt them. And we try to let them know that it can hurt the team, too.

Jonathan Demme

Seeing Neil Young expressing these lyrics and seeing the emotions that register on his face in his style of presentation is a sublime extra for understanding his music.

Kevin Evans

We all need to step back from the emotion.

Dan Wheldon

but I have mixed emotions. I'm happy to be second but I'm also sad to be second.

Rachel Carson

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

Jerome Bettis

The range of our emotions there were all over the place.

Kenny Brown

I'm not sure what he did, but it looked ugly. It's kind of mixed emotions. The kids wrestled really well, but it's sad to see a kid go down with a freak accident. I would have rather we took second and have him back for the rest of the year.

LZ Granderson

Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.

Ken Whitehurst

They play with a lot of heart and a lot of emotion. If they play this way, week in and week out, I'm sure they'll have a season they can be proud of.

Lorenzo Fertitta

We wanted something memorable, and I think Sting helps give us a memorable opening night.

Ben Howland

We have a student who helps out with the video -- he tore his ACL the other day. That's how it's been.

Zach Woods

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Chris Campbell

If ten people get some information out of it, and it helps one person, then it makes the whole night.

Gary Keith

If this thing passes it helps Rick Perry.

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Elena Dementieva

I like to play first, it helps me with my preparation.

Robert Toth

It helps us understand what pi is, not just food.

Aya Traore

(It helps me by) staying in shape. (It also helps me by) not being winded (during the drills).

Gareth Edwards

After JPR Williams was involved in a road traffic accident: 'Bloody typical, isn't it? The car's a write-off. The tanker's a write-off. But JPR comes out of it all in one piece

Dan Henning

There's going to be a lot of temptation on people around the league this year on (wide receiver) Terrell Owens. I can tell you right now, we won't be involved in that temptation. That's part of the plan.

Ray Arvidson

Water was involved in practically every one we have seen so far.

Jason Goldberg

When things like this come up, there is a part of me that really wants to get involved and do something again,

Zach Pollakoff

Music is one of my passions. If I'm not making music, I want to be involved in it in some way.

Ferdinand Marcos

Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.

Nina Banister

If it launches or explodes, it's illegal. There is a risk involved with fireworks, period. Everything is at risk, your pets, your shrubs, your house, your car, your neighbor's house, your neighbor's car. Because something that launches or explodes can be unpredictable.

Kevin Doll

She mentioned to someone that she was involved in a similar incident, and that person read about it in the paper and notified a detective.

Dick Pound

But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Brett Hoebel

You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people - its not pleasant, its painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.

Ashton Kutcher

Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.

Ayn Rand

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Ayn Rand

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Jane Hirshfield

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

Jamie Fellner

Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

Ben Folds

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Bryant H. McGill

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Stephen Greenblatt

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

Viktor E. Frankl

When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Stendhal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

John Milton

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

Michel de Montaigne

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious.

Alfredo Griffin

I am very proud to be here and to be with such a powerful group. This is my country's team. It's a pleasure being here.

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.

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.

Charles Barkley

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.