Liang Chow Quotes

#1. My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.

Shawn Johnson

#2. When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

Shawn Johnson

#3. I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

Liang Chow

#4. On the balance beam, sometimes it's really hard to stay on if you're having some rough times.

Liang Chow

#5. In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

Plato

#7. Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and I'm wrong, and there's nothing after, I will have had a better life than you, because I do believe there was something. And I couldn't argue with that, even though I wanted to.

Woody Allen

#8. Apart from Arsenal and Barcelona, I don't see myself playing anywhere else. I will definitely be going back (to Arsenal) whenever I have time to watch games and to see the guys ... and if there is one place to go back to (to play), it is Arsenal for sure.

Cesc Fabregas

#9. If handled correctly, Facebook can become your marketing partner and is a relatively cost-efficient method for companies to increase brand awareness and consumer engagement.

Wsi

#10. I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

Jermaine O'Neal

#11. Some people would say you need what you need to work, but I need very little to work, because I learned how to make movies on tiny movies. It's all kind of easy for me.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#12. A champion isn't made of muscle; a champion is made of heart.

Liang Chow

#13. Okay, that was, I have to say, about the cheesiest thing I ever heard in my life," I say to Angela as we're milling around afterward. We hug, so Billy can take our picture. "I mean, seriously. Just be? You should write ads for Nike.

Cynthia Hand

#14. I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
and stuff me so full of our infected child
that I turn invisible, but married,
at last.

Anne Sexton

#15. God had a plan for everything. I never knew I'd come to Iowa, but now I love Iowa. Everything is so great about it - the people, the environment, education. I'm so proud to say I'm an Iowan. I'm living the dream.

Liang Chow

#16. I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

Ricky Martin

#17. Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#18. Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Agnes Repplier

#19. If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

Liang Chow

#20. In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

Liang Chow

#21. Words just confused things
when they held each other like this, it made so much more sense.

Tere Michaels

#22. I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd be coaching girls. It's wild.

Liang Chow

#23. Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Carlos Fuentes

#24. I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Liang Chow

#25. Dream? What it is? If you realise it, it's everything; if not, continue the slumber.

Vikrmn

#26. There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.

Liang Chow