Franz Stampfl Quotes

#1. I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

Nancy Lublin

#2. I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

Jennifer Grey

#3. With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.

Franz Stampfl

#4. The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!

Franz Stampfl

#5. I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Siri Hustvedt

#6. [ ... ]Are both of you ... ?"
"Manscaped?" Dante smiled. "I'm fucking Italian; I been mowing my lawn since I was thirteen.

Damon Suede

#7. The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

Franz Stampfl

#8. The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach

Franz Stampfl

#9. Spiders will build their webs no matter how many laws you pass against it.

Marty Rubin

#10. Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Laurie R. King

#11. You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.

Jerry Falwell

#12. And Jaina hears him whispering to her in her dreams, telling her that no one you love ever really has to die--if you don't want them to...All you have to do is hold a place for them in your heart.

Troy Denning

#13. I know her in the biblical senseand when I say that, I mean I don't believe a word she says.

Anthony Jeselnik

#14. Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.

Franz Stampfl

#15. I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

Gerrit Smith

#16. There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.

Franz Stampfl

#17. The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

Franz Stampfl

#18. I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel.

Rodney Dangerfield

#19. Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

Robbie Coltrane