~Best Quotes~

I love reading quotes. Sometimes they strike the right chord within me. So, here are some of my faves. I’ll be adding and rotating them from time to time. Please check back and see what I have dug up. *wink*

Update – I have some new quotes as of 10/10, 2007. So, I’m just “slapping” them on here. I’ll try to organize them later… If I don’t do it this way, they will never get put up!  The older ones are near the bottom. Thanks for understanding.

These contain a wide variety… sports, history, alternative lifestyle, etc.

“Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.”
Anais Nin

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antione de Saint-Exupery, “Wind, Sand, and Stars”

“The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.”
Betty Grable

“A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” Buddha

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
Henry Kissinger

“The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
Lord Byron

“The only way to a woman’s heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”
Marquis De Sade

“The eyes are the silent tongues of love.”
Miguel de Cervantes, “Don Quixote”

“The first and the best victory is to conquer self.”
Plato

“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein

“There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” Rumi

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Shakespeare, MacBeth

“It’s a humbling thing being humble.”
Former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett on seeing his stock drop going into the 2005 NFL draft

“I’m not an athlete. I’m a professional baseball player.”
John Kruk

“I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf.”
Tug McGraw, asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

“I am the most loyal player money can buy.”
Don Sutton, Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels

“Ninety percent of the game is half mental.”
Jim Wohford

“They shouldn’t throw at me. I’m the father of five or six kids.”
Baseball player Tito Fuentes, after getting hit by a pitch.

“As I remember it, the bases were loaded.”
Baseball player Garry Maddox, asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam

“I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.”
Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model

“A lot of good ballgames on tomorrow, but we’re going to be right here with the Cubs and the Mets.”
Thom Brennaman, Chicago Cubs broadcaster.

“I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.”
Former football player/announcer Terry Bradshaw

“I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers… I mean Chargers.”
Bill Belichick

“We’re not attempting to circumcise rules.”
Bill Cowher, Pittsburgh Steelers coach

“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”
Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann

“Hawaii doesn’t win many games in the United States.”
Football analyst Lee Corso

“I’ve won at every level, except college and pro.”
Shaquille O’Neal, on his lack of championships.

“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
Jason Kidd

“Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious”
Alan Minter

“He (Julio Cesar Chavez) speaks English, Spanish, and he’s bilingual, too.”
Don King, boxing promoter.

“The medals don’t mean anything and the glory doesn’t last. It’s all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.”
Jackie Joyner Kersee 1962-, American Track Athlete

“Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.”
Lou Holtz

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”
Tommy Lasorda

“Just do what you do best.”
Red Auerbach

“The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.”
Arthur Ashe

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
Muhammad Ali

“Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.”
Mike Ditka

“You’ll miss 100% of the shots you never take.”
Wayne Gretzky

“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”
Vincent Lombardi

“In life as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“Always keep you words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.”
Unknown

“You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.”
Unknown

“There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
Dali

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
Buddah

“Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once.”
Asimov

“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”
Tom Brokaw

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius

“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”
Dale Earnhardt

” Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” 
Maya Angelou

“People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant.”
Ellen Degeneres

“I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check.”
Escher

“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”
Vince Lombardi

~~~~~~~ Quotes before 10/10/2007~~~~~~~

“Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has.”
“Dolores Claiborne”

“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.”
Anais Nin

“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
Anna Freud

“‘Come to the edge’, he said.
They said, ‘We are afraid’.
‘Come to the edge’, he said.
They came.
He pushed them…
And they flew.”
Guillaume Apollinaire

“The heart is the temple wherein all truth resides.”
Kahlil Gibran

“Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”
Katharine Hepburn

“The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
Lord Byron