Cy Coleman Quotes

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best.

Aint nuttin' but a peanut.

Light weight ... Yeah buddy!

I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

When you hit failure your workout has just begun.

Ain't nuttin' to it,but ta do it!

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder.

Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.

It is important to have people believe in you. With this support, what you can achieve is limitless.

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.

I refused to take no for an answer.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

thank god for pure natural strength

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size.

Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

Music should always be an adventure.

A day in the life of Ronnie Coleman mainly consists of eating, training or sleeping.

It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

They usually show movies on a flight like that.

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must feel like a lord in his own manor.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

I loved challenging myself every day. The weight room was my therapy for everyday life stresses. No matter what I was doing I always wanted to be the best.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

Your body produces a lot less testosterone each and every single year no matter who you are. We are all human, nobody is super human.

I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I�m a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I�m not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn�t exist.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything.

Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.

I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost.