J. T. OWENS Quotes

I don't even know what's brilliant in fashion anymore. There are too many voices.

It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

God blessed me to play football.

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

I just feel like with God you can't be defeated.

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.

Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too.

It doesnt matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

I remember as a kid being cold a lot, and hungry sometimes. Wed go to bed with just cornbread and milk, and I remember wearing shoes with holes in the bottom. I remember having twine for shoestrings.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

I'll do whatever it takes to win.

This is Gods world this is not the medias world.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

I stopped playing video games, I stopped playing other sports, and I just dove head first into wrestling and it's been my passion ever since I discovered it.

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time.

I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.

I've always been pretty much a quiet person. When I was little, I got picked on a lot. After I went through all that, I pretty much kept to myself.

Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

There has to be a beginning somewhere and my thing is that I am going to give it all I got.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

I feel like there’s a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I’m completely in this world of possibility.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

Ill watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.