Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Vermeil

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Bruce Lee

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Babe Ruth

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Earl Monroe

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Dick Fosbury

I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see".

Jesse Ventura

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Michael Owen

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

Joe Frazier

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

Dee Brown

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted

Dee Dee Myers

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

Earl Nightingale

Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!

Deepak Chopra

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

Deepak Chopra

Never give up hope. Know that you are loved.

Abdul Kalam

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning".

Abdul Kalam

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Abraham Lincoln

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

Alexander Wang

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.