Top 100 Quotes About Rooney
#1. Wisdom is being able to see the world for what it is, rather than what you want it to be.
Patrick F. Rooney
#3. this, they've never felt that, they no longer feel anything, they don't count anymore. I think it's small-minded. I wish there were more people over sixty here, to tell you the truth.
Kathleen Rooney
#4. New things pop up at the edges, but the middle's where the money is.
Kathleen Rooney
#5. Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.
Andy Rooney
#6. I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
Wayne Rooney
#7. Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
Andy Rooney
#8. Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.
Andy Rooney
#10. One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."
~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
Andy Rooney
#11. The last birthday that's any good is 23.
Andy Rooney
#12. I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
Andy Rooney
#13. I just want to get in the team and show all of them what I can do.
(on signing for Manchester united)
Wayne Rooney
#15. The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
Andy Rooney
#16. I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.
Rooney Mara
#17. I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
Wayne Rooney
#18. The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
Andy Rooney
#19. Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs. I
Kathleen Rooney
#20. Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.
Martin Samuel
#21. I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.
Wayne Rooney
#22. I've learned ... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.
Andy Rooney
#23. I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.
Andy Rooney
#24. I said from the very beginning that I was looking for the best person, I had no doubt it was Roger Goodell.
Dan Rooney
#25. I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.
Mickey Rooney
#26. The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
Andy Rooney
#27. I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.
Andy Rooney
#28. When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.
Wayne Rooney
#29. It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
Andy Rooney
#30. It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.
John Toshack
#31. If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'
Mickey Rooney
#33. As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.
Rooney Mara
#34. People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.
Andy Rooney
#35. like an idiot pitching change into a well that nobody ever said was open for wishing.
Kathleen Rooney
#36. We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.
Andy Rooney
#37. Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.
Mickey Rooney
#38. I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
Wayne Rooney
#39. There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?
Andy Rooney
#40. I'm in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it's wrong that I get fired, well, I've got enough to eat.
Andy Rooney
#41. The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.
Andy Rooney
#42. But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.
Franco Harris
#43. Small daily happenings make life spectacular ... start enjoying the small things in life!
Andy Rooney
#44. Rooney is one of the best players in the world and I love watching him play. But if you had to pick out only one, then for their history and for all that they have achieved it would have to be Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs. They are two shining examples for any player.
Andres Iniesta
#45. In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
Andy Rooney
#46. It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.
Andy Rooney
#47. The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney
#48. Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.
Tom Rooney
#49. It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.
Bernie Ecclestone
#50. Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.
Wayne Rooney
#51. When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know ... '
Mickey Rooney
#52. If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.
Andy Rooney
#53. When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
Andy Rooney
#54. We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.
Andy Rooney
#55. Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.
Andy Rooney
#56. I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you
the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.
Andy Rooney
#57. Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.
Mickey Rooney
#58. I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
Wayne Rooney
#59. The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.
Andy Rooney
#60. I've learned ... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
Andy Rooney
#61. I've learned ... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
Andy Rooney
#62. I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
Hampton Sides
#63. Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.
Andy Rooney
#64. My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.
Rooney Mara
#65. I don't mean to in any way impugn the makers of Bentley, but that car is nuts. When I do drive, I drive a Toyota Prius. So driving around the streets of Albuquerque in a Bentley made me feel so fake-a-rooney.
Jessica Hecht
#66. People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
Andy Rooney
#67. If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.
Andy Rooney
#68. Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele ... Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar.
Gary Lineker
#69. The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
Wayne Rooney
#70. Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
Andy Rooney
#71. I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.
Andy Rooney
#72. The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.
Art Rooney
#73. Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.
Kevin Rooney
#74. Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.
Andy Rooney
#75. [Wayne Rooney ] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.
Michael Owen
#76. Fiction is often a much-needed step back that gives you the distance to see things more clearly; it's very often better at explaining why events happened as opposed to just what happened.
Kathleen Rooney
#77. We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
Andy Rooney
#78. I started Rooney in high school. These were guys I went to high school with and guys I knew from L.A.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#79. I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
Wayne Rooney
#80. The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.
Andy Rooney
#81. Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney
#82. Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.
Wayne Rooney
#83. The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
#84. Here's some free advice: Make an honest assessment of the choices you've made before you look askance at somebody else's." I
Kathleen Rooney
#85. One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.
Andy Rooney
#86. Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Andy Rooney
#87. I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.
Andy Rooney
#88. I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?
Andy Rooney
#89. I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.
Rooney Mara
#90. No, Wayne (Rooney) doesn't need it (tips about style). He has his own style. But with hair he looks much better. He looks very good now. Before, he was a little bit ugly, but now, with hair, he's beautiful.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#91. Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.
Tom Rooney
#92. I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.
Rooney Mara
#93. It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game - except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
Andy Rooney
#94. I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
Wayne Rooney
#95. The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
Andy Rooney
#96. England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.
Matt Dickinson
#98. If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.
Wayne Rooney
#99. A lot of these love notes seem to be from well-read and lovesick young men with literary aspirations. That type doesn't interest me in the least. They say they only have eyes for gazing at you and then end up gazing right back at their navels.
Kathleen Rooney
#100. The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.
Kathleen Rooney
