Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.

Mark Spitz

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Bob Marley

I never exaggerate. I just remember big.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

Tupac Shakur

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

Voltaire

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Henry Ward Beecher

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

Edward Everett

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

Duke of Wellington

It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Henry David Thoreau