T. J. Rodgers Quotes

Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

I'm always looking for challenges.

I know the pressure I'm under. I know who I'm following.

I want to run until I can't run

They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.

. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd be willing to jump through hoops to win and keep them.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

As long as I have my legs and commitment to the team, then I'll keep playing.

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain.

My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.

Hills are terrific for running

My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble.

I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.

I was surprised we were playing in Manchester and have a referee from Greater Manchester.

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

Sometimes the manager must perform with the courage and agility of a circus performer, carefully crossing the highwire between short-term problems and long-term objectives.

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

People buy products for what they can do, not for what they are.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.

You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

The best players want to play in the best competition.

I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.

I will always fight for my life for Liverpool, and that will be on and off the field.

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.