Lynn Swann Quotes

#1. Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.

Jerry Rice

#2. She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five ... she says women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.

Jane Green

#3. I demoted him from The Best Man Ever to just The Best Man I'd Ever Met. Superman would have charged out (hell, he'd have flown) to get Lois Lane cookies. I was pretty sure of it.

Kristen Ashley

#4. I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

Lynn Swann

#5. I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.

Christopher Parker

#6. I was not a very good football player when I started out.

Lynn Swann

#7. I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Lynn Swann

#8. I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

Lynn Swann

#9. I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

Lynn Swann

#10. When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Lynn Swann

#11. And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

Lynn Swann

#12. Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.

Lynn Swann

#13. We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

Lynn Swann

#14. I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#15. If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

Tom Irwin

#16. Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

Lynn Swann

#17. Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

Lynn Swann

#18. Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.

Lynn Swann

#19. Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it runs sparkling through my fingers: but beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes.

Clarice Lispector

#20. Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

Lynn Swann

#21. Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Lynn Swann

#22. Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

Lynn Swann

#23. Professional sports is a business.

Lynn Swann

#24. If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.

Lynn Swann

#25. This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

Lynn Swann

#26. Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.

Paul Vitz

#27. I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

Lynn Swann

#28. These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they're circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.

Tania James

#29. The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity.

Stephen Jay Gould

#30. That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

Eliphas Levi

#31. What happens when it's 2 a.m. and you're alone in a hotel room with the devil's minibar? Minibar - one; Marissa - zero.

Marissa Jaret Winokur