Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sanya Richards

When I saw her jumping so well I was cheering her on, too. Back in the village, I told her if she kept with it, she could win a medal. I'm so proud of her, that really motivated me.

Tony Stewart

When you're fat like me, you get hungry. ... I'm still hungry. I hadn't eaten since noon. I'm still too old and still too fat, but as long as those people keep cheering when I get up there, I'm going to keep doing it.

Andre Johnson

When you're down, you have to do something to cheer yourself up. I guess that's what cheers them up.

We had great fans, but they were hard fans. They used to cheer when I got hurt. We did have to prove ourselves.

We wanted to give those people in the shelters something to cheer about.

We have been waiting forever for this game. It's our job to come here and cheer on the team. If we leave and can still talk, we haven't done our job.

William Shakespeare

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

We hope the stands will be full of fans who are here cheering our team on,

Alex Johnson

While cheering for the big game can be a great way to express enthusiasm for your favorite team, you could be paying for this for days or weeks after the big event.

On game day, I'll be cheering for Florida, but if Iowa is playing somebody from the Big Ten, then I cheer for Iowa.

Jack Roush

On the face of it, I'm cheering for them for going out and finding something with the same parts the rest of us are running and making it work better, which they did,

Unfortunately, that is the way things work out sometimes in our profession. You're not out there cheering for someone to get hurt, but the fact of the matter is that's how opportunities come about, and I was able to come in and do the job.

You do not be a victim of a gang rape and then go to a football game and cheer them on.

To have all those thousands cheering for us made it a lot easier. But we know we won't get anything like that tomorrow night.

Derek Jeter

We didn't really give them much to cheer about.

We are sad and worried with what has been happening. People need to go to the stadium only to cheer for their clubs, to enjoy the (matches).

I saw Iraqi people in line happy to be voting, cheering us when we arrived,

Ruth Rendell

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

Anne Lamott

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

D. H. Lawrence

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

D. H. Lawrence

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

Daniel Defoe

Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer, and he shall strengthen thy Heart; wait, I say, on the Lord:' It is impossible to express the Comfort this gave me. In Answer, I thankfully laid down the Book, and was no more sad, at least, not on that Occasion.

We'll take the cheers while we can get them.

Alexander Pope

Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

E. M. Forster

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Douglas Adams

As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.

Dorothea Dix

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

Donald Hall

Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!"

Daniel Radcliffe

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

Daniel Radcliffe

People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person.

David Foster Wallace

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

Dave Checketts

Success builds character, failure reveals it.