T.C. Peterson Quotes

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.

The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.

You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.

Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

The Frankfurt Galaxy( The NFL Europe team) always had tremendous success, at that time there were 2,000 American football clubs in Europe playing the game from juniors through to adults.

A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.

The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that: "All things work together for good to them that love God."

Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

More birds have adapted to a changing world than have failed. Very few have the narrow tolerance of the ivory-billed woodpecker or the Bachman's warbler.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

I believe God takes the things in our lives - family, background, education - and uses them as part of his calling. It might not be to become a pastor. But I don't think God wastes anything.

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

I have the mentality that if you come in playing not to get hurt, that's when you're going to get hurt. So I play relentless.

I love my son. I love my kids, my family. Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea, I take full responsibility for my actions.

I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound.

We really didn't talk a whole lot about relationships. I believe I asked if he had ever been married, and he said no.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.

You know you're in trouble, when the bartender cries.

You're here to be LIGHT... Shine! Be generous with your lives.

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more

I love my son more than any of you can imagine.

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

When you are part of a megachurch you have no responsibility to anybody else.

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.

It feels good to give back to the people who support you.

The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part.