Top 39 Heiden Quotes
#1. When I was skating you had to participate in every thing.
Eric Heiden
#2. 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
#3. I have said no
To everything, in order to get at myself.
I have wiped away moonlight like mud ...
Wallace Stevens
#4. Those who wish to transform the world must be able to transform themselves.
Konrad Heiden
#5. 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
#6. Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
Eric Heiden
#7. I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once.
Terry Pratchett
#8. I really liked it best when I was a nobody.
Eric Heiden
#9. It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#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. In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.
Eric Heiden
#13. It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.
Eric Heiden
#14. 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
#16. What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
Edmond Jabes
#17. I'm not a big fan of those who are egotistical and so outspoken.
Eric Heiden
#18. We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.
Eric Heiden
#19. Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.
Susan Rice
#20. Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
Voltaire
#21. Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no angels ascend and descend, where no living hand adorns the fields, feeds the birds of heaven, or regulates events.
Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher
#22. You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week.
Eric Heiden
#23. It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.
Eric Heiden
#24. Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.
Eric Heiden
#25. If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
Bo Jackson
#26. They're just big in the eyes of the American public.
Eric Heiden
#27. We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.
Eric Heiden
#28. 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
#29. October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.
Joy Fielding
#30. I didn't get into skating to be famous.
Eric Heiden
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
Natalie MacMaster
#35. I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.
Eric Heiden
#36. I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
Eric Heiden
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
