Marty Quotes

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

As a mayor, I don't make my decisions based upon whether it is a "Democrat" issue. You make your decisions based upon the people you represent as a city to move our city forward.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.

We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.

A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.

Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops.

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

There's the chart -- and there's the heart. And it's great when they both line up. But you better follow your heart, 'cause that's where it's at.

Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

He made us laugh, he took my pain away. I love you, Lauretta.

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.

You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.

The straight man has to know to relate to the comic. When I think of the great comedy teams, I think of Martin & Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello.

We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals.

It also has potential to cause problems to individuals who had nothing to do with the terrorism issue.

The remission to Abu Bakar Bashir is not a reflection on the individual per se rather than the application of the remission program, which is applied in general.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

That's what American values and ideals are all about: We can come here and be different and celebrate different faiths and be OK with that.

Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.

Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day.

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

Watching fish, like listening to music, can distract you in a good way.

Design can also be used to invent strategic futures, make complex decisions, and craft a bold corporate vision. We need to move design up the ladder of influence.

You can't really move forward if you don't heal the past and identify and address the fact that you had a problem and in some cases still have issues. That has to be dealt with.

You can't be a leader by following a leader.

In a sense, traditional business is design blind.

I take my pet lion to church ever Sunday. He has to eat.

Talent is being able to please people.

It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.

Someone who plays hard every shift, it's pretty admirable for a young guy.