Top 38 Eric Heiden Quotes
#1. Though pedantry denies,
It's plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking with his queens ...
William Butler Yeats
#2. On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.
Eric Heiden
#3. In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.
Eric Heiden
#4. How much you move affects your strength, your power, your balance, how you look, how you think, how well you withstand the high winds and rain showers of life and how long you will stand. Everyone needs concentrated doses of several kinds of movement to remain functional.
Eric Heiden
#5. The Unbookables are supposed to be unbookable. That's what it's all about.
Doug Stanhope
#6. I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.
Eric Heiden
#7. Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
Eric Heiden
#8. I really liked it best when I was a nobody.
Eric Heiden
#9. Nothing up there tonight but entropy, and the same imaginary shapes that people had been imposing on nature since they'd first thought to wonder at the heavens.
Peter Watts
#10. You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed.
Eric Heiden
#11. I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.
Eric Heiden
#12. When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.
Eric Heiden
#14. It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.
Eric Heiden
#15. Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.
Eric Heiden
#17. I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
Walter Johnson
#18. I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.
Eric Heiden
#19. We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.
Eric Heiden
#20. We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.
Eric Heiden
#21. It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
Eric Heiden
#22. The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.
Michael Moore
#23. Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.
Eric Heiden
#25. We dont offer you any solutions necessarily but we definitely offer you a minute to escape.
Alex Gaskarth
#26. Other sink," I said, smiling at his presumption that he would get drawers at my place, too, and his scowl when he couldn't find them.
Sylvia Day
#27. The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.
Johnny Bower
#28. I have very young looks, so it's easy for me to play high school, but I'm trying to stay away from high-school movies. As I get older, I'll try and broaden my talents.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
#29. They're just big in the eyes of the American public.
Eric Heiden
#30. You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.
Eric Heiden
#31. Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.
Eric Heiden
#32. I didn't get into skating to be famous.
Eric Heiden
#33. While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.
Ellen DeGeneres
#34. One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career.
Eric Heiden
#35. I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.
Eric Heiden
#36. I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.
Eric Heiden
#37. I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
Eric Heiden
#38. We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.
Eric Heiden
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