Al Michaels Quotes

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!

Everyone wants to go to the party and the red carpet, but my life is 90% the work.

I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

Train insane or remain the same.

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

Talented people are restless at their core.

The Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, is gonna be the man of '96.

We know you're stashing him, Cena!

Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.

If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.

You want to go to a summer concert and not watch a band staring at its shoes for six hours and complaining.

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

It takes 4 weeks for you to notice your body changing, 8 weeks for your friends to notice, & 12 weeks for the rest of the world to notice. Give it 12 weeks. Don't quit.

The way to get motivated and stay motivated is to identify, define, and emotionally connect to your dreams.

There's always room for improvement. I incorporate the lessons I learned from my mistakes and move forward.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.

I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.

You can tell a lot from someone's eyes.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

I cant save you, you have to save yourself.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It’s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

Become very comfortable being uncomfortable.

So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

I'm not the new kid on the block anymore. Writers always use the phrase "aging rocker," and I'm like, "What other option do I have?" You're either aging or you're dead.

It's important to stay true to yourself. You have to know your weaknesses and recruit support when and where you need it.

Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.

If the way they make the show makes it fresh, then it's worthwhile. I think all of these forms have to be blown up every now and then and start again.

Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.