Gino Bartali Quotes

#1. Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

Gino Bartali

#2. The best leaders don't blame others. They own their actions and their outcomes.

Mark Miller

#3. Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist.

Gino Bartali

#4. Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

Gino Bartali

#5. Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

Robert Lembke

#6. The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

Dennis Miller

#7. The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#8. Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.

Gino Bartali

#9. For thousands of years, they have known, when you were born and when you will die.
- Would you want to know?

Grant Finnegan

#10. Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#11. ... it is not just that moral conclusions can not be justified in the way that they once were ; but the loss of the possibility of such justification signals a correlative change in the meaning of moral idioms

Alasdair MacIntyre

#12. I suppose if you've always been wrapped in wool, you don't know it's wool.

Frank Delaney

#13. My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.

Hugh Jackman