J. B. Stoner Quotes

Your ambition outweighed your talent

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

Infidels: Repent of Mohammedanism or burn in hell forever, throughout eternity.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.

I think I dont really have any expectations; I dont look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

Even in motocross, youre struggling to see people pass each other anymore. There seems to be one line in motocross.

I like to take risks as long as they're healthy, you know. They're good, smart risks.

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

I have broken my collarbone twice in a year.

I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.

The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.

People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.

It was a passion neither of the mind nor of the heart, it was a force that comprehended them both, as if they were but the matter of love, its specific substance.