Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Parcells

I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.

Bill Parcells

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

Bill Parcells

I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.

Bill Parcells

The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.

Bill Parcells

The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

Bill Parcells

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

Bill Parcells

Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

Bill Parcells

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

David Viscott

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

David Robinson

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

David Rockefeller

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Icke

It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.

David Hume

What is easy and obvious is never valued; and even what is in itself difficult, if we come to knowledge of it without difficulty, and without and stretch of thought or judgment, is but little regarded.

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

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

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

While others were out partying, I was training. While they were out dancing at the clubs, I was training... and training... and training.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I never listen that you can't.

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

Bear Grylls

What I've learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?

Bear Grylls

My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

Barry Alvarez

We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.

Audrey Hepburn

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Audre Lorde

To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

Audre Lorde

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?