Spanos Quotes

#1. Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

Debra Winger

#2. When you're winning, you're a hero. When you're losing, you're a bum ... I'm as bad as the fans, believe me. If they only knew how I hate losing and what we go through to try to win.

Alex Spanos

#3. My greatest success story has been my family.

Alex Spanos

#4. All my kids have worked in the family business. I've been successful at that. My family knows how to work. We all started working very young.

Alex Spanos

#5. The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.

Stephen Curry

#6. Old habits are strong and jealous.

Dorothea Brande

#7. I picked up the closest thing at hand - which happened to be a hand - and threw it. It bounced off the hollow's back, and the thing turned around to face me.

Ransom Riggs

#8. Honestly, people always talk about 'normal' as though it is something to aspire to, but that's a load of crap. Normal isn't an achievement, it's a baseline. Normal is something you end up as if you never get around to doing something interesting.

Joseph R. Lallo

#9. I'm a screamer and a yeller. When I want something, all I do is yell, and I get responses.

Alex Spanos

#10. I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexander. But I don't believe I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.

Alex Spanos

#11. I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

Tyson Chandler

#12. My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

Alex Spanos

#13. Nobody who knows me would believe this, but I was always the life of the party. Oh, how I loved to sing and dance, and we had good times. Good clean fun it was, too.

Alex Spanos

#14. My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

Alex Spanos

#15. I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

Alex Spanos

#16. Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

#17. There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#18. Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one
except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative, practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

Henry Adams

#19. We have more moral, political and historical wisdom, than we know how to reduce into practice; we

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#20. The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.

Alex Spanos

#21. We had to take off our shoes after school to save wear on the soles.

Alex Spanos

#22. If newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

Virginia Woolf

#23. be creative, adapt quickly, and rely on your wits instead of automated tools.

David Kennedy

#24. We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter F. Drucker

#25. I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

Alex Spanos