Top 83 Mary Lou Quotes
#1. I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.
Tammy Wynette
#2. On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.
Joyce Carol Oates
#3. Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself?" Shanti asked.
"Yeah," Mary Lou answered. "And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.
Libba Bray
#4. Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.
Kerri Strug
#5. Because the pure girls get rescued."
Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She was well and truly pissed off. "Why do girls have to be all pure and innocent and good? Why don't guys have to be?
Libba Bray
#6. You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
Nastia Liukin
#7. That's one of the things I like about Mary Lou. She's willing to believe the worst about anyone.
Janet Evanovich
#8. Mary Lou: Are you a seeker? A seeker after truth?
a beat.
Newt: I'm more of a chaser, really.
J.K. Rowling
#9. O how terrible it must be for a young man
seated before a family and the family thinking
We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou!
After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living
Gregory Corso
#10. That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.
Marian McPartland
#11. He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush.
Mary Lou Molnar
Janet Evanovich
#12. Mary Lou Buckman and I sat in the first booth, and I, mindful of Wild Bill Hickok, sat facing the door.
Robert B. Parker
#13. Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.
Mary Lou Williams
#14. Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
Mary Lou Williams
#15. I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room.
Mary Lou Williams
#16. As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.
Mary Lou Retton
#18. For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
Mary Lou Retton
#19. Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.
Mary Lou Retton
#20. The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#21. If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.
Mary Lou Retton
#23. Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.
Mary Lou Retton
#24. He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.
Mary Lou Williams
#25. There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people.
Mary Lou Retton
#26. Having read literally thousands of them, I was sure I knew every which way of killing someone. I never thought a time would come when I would make use of it.
Mary Lou Kirwin
#27. Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.
Mary Lou Retton
#28. What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living.
Mary Lou Retton
#29. There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.
Mary Lou Retton
#30. I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#31. Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#32. Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.
Mary Lou Retton
#33. I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
Mary Lou Williams
#34. Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.
Mary Lou Retton
#35. That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
Mary Lou Retton
#36. I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
Mary Lou Retton
#37. I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.
Mary Lou Retton
#38. In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
Mary Lou Retton
#39. Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.
Mary Lou Retton
#40. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
Mary Lou Retton
#42. Heat is required to forge anything. Every
great accomplishment is the story of a flaming
heart.
Mary Lou Retton
#43. Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
Mary Lou Williams
#44. Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#45. During the years I was with Andy Kirk we starved almost. I remember not eating for practically a month several times. But we were very, very happy because the music was so interesting, and you forgot to eat, anyway.
Mary Lou Williams
#46. Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.
Mary Lou Retton
#48. All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#51. Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.
Mary Lou Retton
#52. In L.A., we had a game room with a new sensation called Pac-Man.
Mary Lou Retton
#53. You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful ... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
Mary Lou Retton
#54. Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
Mary Lou Retton
#55. One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.
Mary Lou Williams
#56. You've got to believe in yourself first. Take risks and don't be afraid to fall.
Mary Lou Retton
#58. There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story.
Mary Lou Kownacki
#59. Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.
Mary Lou Retton
#60. Even though it may seem counterintuitive, a comfort zone is a dangerous place to be.
Mary Lou Retton
#61. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun
Mary Lou Cook
#62. Henri J.M. Nouwen wrote about 'wounded healers.' I've come to see that there's no other kind. We are all wounded, and we are all called to take part in what God is doing to bring healing to those around us.
Mary Lou Redding
#63. I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.
Mary Lou Retton
#64. There's nothing like cataloguing books for taking your mind off things.
Mary Lou Kirwin
#66. My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.
Lou Holtz
#67. My mother knew when to listen and when to pray and when to help. I wonder hoy many people knew the compassion Mary Finlayson held for them and how hard, in the privacy of her God Box, she prayed for them and their struggles.
Mary Lou Quinlan
#69. Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#70. It is not possible to rent a beach house within five hours' drive of one's hometown without being visited by people. This is especially true if I have actually invited them. One of my problems is that I like to be nicer than I actually am.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#71. Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.
Mary Lou Williams
#72. Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over.
Mary Lou Retton
#73. I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
Mary Lou Retton
#74. Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.
Mary Lou Retton
#75. Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.
Mary Lou Williams
#76. If you work on your talent, the plans will fall in automatically.
Mary Lou Williams
#77. As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
Mary Lou Retton
#79. Many athletes competing in Atlanta wouldn't be here if it weren't for corporate support.
Mary Lou Retton
#80. It's going to be really weird when I'm 80 years old, in a walker, and people are still calling me America's sweetheart. We need a new one.
Mary Lou Retton
#81. For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.
Mary Lou Retton
#82. Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton
#83. When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'
Mary Lou Williams
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