Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casey Stengel

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Carl Hubbell

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Carl Lewis

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

Charlie Anderson

If we don't try, we don't do and if we don't do why are we here on earth?

The work praises the man.

Bob Moore

I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.

Bill Phillips

The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.

Bill Rodgers

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

Bill Rodgers

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

Bill Parcells

We're not playing solitaire out here.

Bill Parcells

This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.

Bill Parcells

There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.

Bill Parcells

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

Bill Parcells

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

Bill Parcells

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

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.

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

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

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