Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Peyton Manning

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me piece of mind.

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?

Babe Ruth

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

Michael Owen

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

John Greenleaf Whittier

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Jesse Ventura

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

Katarina Witt

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Richie Benaud

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

Pat Riley

The points that he scored really weren't ones that hurt us.

Rachel Corrie

Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn't hurt each other.

Alan Cohen

Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.

Alan Cohen

Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.

Will Rogers

When they do nothing, they don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

Andy Hartmann

When Zach left, it hurt. But when Mike came, it was a relief because we're going to have a nice tandem in the backfield.

Allan Bertram

When Harmon fouled out, because even though he's not real tall he is very strong, that really hurt us. Their size just killed us.

Dean Stanley

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

Walter Benjamin

There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.