R. A. Rooney Quotes

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I love football, football is my life.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a ­manager would be my first choice.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you... More

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.

I keep going because if you stop, you stop. Why retire? Inspire.

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.

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

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

I've learned... That love, not time, heals all wounds.

Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

I can't choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.

The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.

I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.

You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player. play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.

I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.

Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!