Funny Inspirational Quotes
Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.
When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.
On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.