Top 32 Dorsett Quotes
#1. I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.
Emmitt Smith
#2. For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me.
Tim Brown
#3. To me, he has his own style. He doesnt remind me any more of myself than I did (other tailbacks). I did things to remind people of Tony Dorsett, but it was a different style. Hes a guy who can catch balls like Marshall Faulk or somebody like that.
Barry Sanders
#4. The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.
Sam Kean
#5. I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.
Tony Dorsett
#6. Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.
Eva Gabor
#7. Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#8. She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.
Lyle W. Dorsett
#9. I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'
Tony Dorsett
#10. The anthology was not a best-seller; art as a weapon seldom is.
Lyle W. Dorsett
#11. I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
Mara Brock Akil
#12. You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.
Tony Dorsett
#13. The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.
Tony Dorsett
#14. Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#16. You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.
Tony Dorsett
#17. I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.
Tony Dorsett
#18. Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
Tony Dorsett
#19. It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.
Tony Dorsett
#20. The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.
Lyle W. Dorsett
#21. So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Ben Stein
#22. My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.
Tony Dorsett
#23. No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.
Tony Dorsett
#24. Why, her father would turn in his grave
well, as a matter of fact, he was cremated, but what I mean is, if he hadn't been he would have. [Ermyntrude]
Georgette Heyer
#25. To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett
#26. Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
Tony Dorsett
#27. You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.
Tony Dorsett
#28. Don't itch the itch feel the itch
E.M.
#29. Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.
Tony Dorsett
#30. People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.
Tony Dorsett
#32. If you want to be happy, never ask for the gift of discernment.
Lyle W. Dorsett
