Top 52 Dan O'neill Quotes
#1. Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
Bill O'Reilly
#2. You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
Dan O'Brien
#3. When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
Dan O'Brien
#4. When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.
Dan Harmon
#5. We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters.
Dan O'Neill
#6. Mercy Corps' partnership with The Hunger Site translates into lifesaving assistance for people in tremendous need around the world. When you visit, click, and shop at this unique site, you're making the future a little brighter for families who need food in the world's poorest places.
Dan O'Neill
#7. We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.
Dan O'Brien
#8. Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
Dan O'Brien
#9. Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa
Dan Buettner
#10. Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.
Dan O'Brien
#11. There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
Dan O'Brien
#12. CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
Conan O'Brien
#13. I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event ... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
Dan O'Brien
#14. And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
Dan O'Brien
#15. You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.
Dan O'Brien
#16. Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else.
Dan Harmon
#17. Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.
Dan O'Neill
#18. Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
Dan O'Brien
#19. The next great decathlete is going to be a runner. I still feel that a Dan O'Brien, if he was a runner and not a sprinter, could have gone over 9,000 points.
Caitlyn Jenner
#21. When profound questions are asked of the heart, the answers are best kept to yourself.
Dan O'Brien
#22. Your mind is a wonderful tool for creating what your soul wants. Use the tool, don't let it use you.
Dan O'Donnell
#23. Yes, but everybody else gets more than us.
Dan O'Bannon
#24. You know why divorce costs so much? Because it is worth it!
Dan O'Brien
#25. I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
Dan Brown
#26. As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
Dan O'Brien
#27. It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
Dan O'Brien
#28. It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
Dan O'Brien
#29. Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.
P. J. O'Rourke
#30. I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.
Dan O'Brien
#31. You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
Dan O'Brien
#32. The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.
Dan Brown
#33. I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget ... to look ahead, not behind.
Dan O'Brien
#34. Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
Dan O'Brien
#35. It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
Dan O'Brien
#36. I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
Dan O'Brien
#37. I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
Dan O'Brien
#38. Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.
Dan Abrams
#39. I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
Dan O'Brien
#40. To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
Dan O'Brien
#41. If you never give up, you'll be successful.
Dan O'Brien
#42. Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove
Dan Skinner
#43. When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.
Dan O'Brien
#44. If we hear a joke so awful that we laugh at how bad it is, we are taking part in the irony; in other words, the joke did not contain irony; irony was provided by our response. Why is it ironic? Because the intent of the joke was to get laughter, and it did - but for the wrong reason.
Dan O'Shannon
#45. As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
Dan O'Brien
#46. As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
Dan O'Brien
#47. The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
Dan O'Brien
#48. Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Dan O'Brien
#49. Oh come on'P.O.E.T.S.'? 'piss.off.early.tomorrows.saterday.' the weekend approches people!
Dan Abnett
#50. You got to remember, this is the United States. Practically ninety percent of your friends and neighbors are right-wing, fundamentalist, un-Christian, Nazi-bastard, racist dogs. No one sunk the Mayflower when we had the chance, and we are stuck with those attitudes.
Dan O'Neill
#51. Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.
Brian O'Driscoll
#52. After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
Dan O'Brien
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