J. T. OWENS Quotes

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.

Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.

The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that’s what really sums up style for me.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

One chance is all you need.

Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is also one of the most attractive things you can do.

Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.

The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.

Only by God?s grace have I made it to see today and only by God?s grace will I ever see tomorrow.

Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.

Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

You can't stay in one place. If you stay in one place you die. So you have to move forward.

Fashion can be cruel. Style is a gift to others.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

High gas prices are eating away at consumers disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person

When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

The whole fashion thing is so oversaturated.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

I'm really conscious of not doing something just for the sake of moving forward.

I want to have fun. And I want to enjoy what I'm doing.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

You reach a saturation point where people resent having to share you more with people who they think are not as connected and so they end up with a feeling of resentment.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.