Fire In My Belly Quotes

#1. I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Ty Cobb

#2. It's about ... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.

Dennis Quaid

#3. I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.

Emmylou Harris

#4. Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do.

Douglas Booth

#5. Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough.

Jonathan Mostow

#6. It is a big world, full of things that steal your breath and fill your belly with fire...But where you go when you leave isn't as important as where you go when you come home.

Lindsay Eagar

#7. At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

Erich Maria Remarque

#8. The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Morrissey

#9. With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.

David Limbaugh

#10. What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

Simon Sinek

#11. Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire of a thousand suns, burned through my belly. I tried to squirm away from his hands, using mine to push him away.

A.B. Shepherd

#12. Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

Stella McCartney

#13. I know many of you would say "What about the Bible?" The Bible says this, the Bible says that, the Bible is the inspired Word of God. I think the Bible is the inspired word of man - about God, and some of that is now expired.

Carlton Pearson

#14. Being burned out is a lot better than having no fire in the fist place.

Scott Ginsberg

#15. The full impact of silver
liquid fire, hot and flowing hit me hard in that place in your belly that doesn't exist for food, but for something else entirely. It exists solely to possess the feeling that it barely held in check right then. I don't know what it was. I don't think it has a name.

S.L. Naeole

#16. A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

Sam Keen

#17. Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.

Bill Shankly

#18. Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

Jeffrey Kluger

#19. When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices ...

Andres Segovia

#20. A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or a pretender clamoring for attention at the edge of the world? One look to Menelaus was all the reminder Agamemnon needed of how much he detested that comparison.

Aria Cunningham

#21. I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.

Wilfred Thesiger

#22. The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly.

Mark Steyn

#23. Passion has more applications than just about anything. If you don't have a fire in your belly about something, you should go start one.

Cassandra Duffy

#24. The Wanderlust has got me ... by the belly-aching fire

Robert W. Service

#25. You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#26. It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.

Clive Standen

#27. What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Robert Breault

#28. Then her spirit started to stir again. The fire in her belly. The invisible wings on her back twitching, as though her inside could sense a strong wind.

Janna Lafrance

#29. Everything in life is us trying to reproduce that first moment. That frenzy of unsustainable energy exploding into a billion directions.

Peter Tieryas

#30. George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

Michael Hersch

#31. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

Heath Ledger

#32. I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

Steve Largent

#33. The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

Alan Cohen

#34. The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

Mahatma Gandhi