The Arena Quotes

#1. There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability where they are socially useful; for once admitted, 'I'
my real self
would no longer have them.

Richard Sennett

#2. Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

Charles R. Swindoll

#3. Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.

Brene Brown

#4. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this - this (chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.

Barbara Bush

#5. I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

Jeff Koons

#6. Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

John C. Maxwell

#7. The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.

Janine Turner

#8. Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.

Noam Chomsky

#9. There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.

Crixus

#10. The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.

Publilius Syrus

#11. God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man-suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death-and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.

John Bertram Phillips

#12. Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

#13. To keep one's voice sweet, one's face bright, one's will steady, one's patience unperturbed, in the arena of the home, in the light of one's own family, is no light task

Margaret E. Sangster

#14. Science fiction is the arena of the not-yet, and every science fiction story has this element of not-yet-ness - usually a bit of technology or a scientific discovery that we don't know about in the real world of the present but that might be a possibility in the future.

Welch Everman

#15. There are strict rules in these matters, I find.' 'There were strict rules in the arena, too. Every gladiator had to have a sword, oh yes; but if it was Caligula he was to fight with, the sword was made of lead.

Patrick O'Brian

#16. All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#17. I've always considered myself a crunch-time player. I just love having the ball in my hands. Everyone in the arena knows the ball is supposed to be in your hands and you still make it. It's the odds. I love the odds.

Reggie Miller

#18. He did not have time to wallow, to give a moment's thought to what may have happened to her or whether she was alive.

Turn into the punch, grab hold of the gun, leap into the arena. Attack.

He had to move. Now.

G.S. Jennsen

#19. But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

Mel Tillis

#20. The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle. Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way.

Aaron Siskind

#21. Sometimes when we dare to walk into the arena the greatest critic we face is ourselves.

Brene Brown

#22. Because the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecuted minority must be stainlessly pure. Can't you see what nonsense that is? What's to prevent the bad from being persecuted by the worse? Did all the Christian victims in the arena have to be saints?

Christopher Isherwood

#23. In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

Joanne Harris

#24. If you're not in the arena with the rest of us, fighting and getting your ass kicked on occasion, I'm not interested in your feedback.

Brene Brown

#25. What do you think?" he asks.
"I hate them," I say. I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. "All I do is go around trying to forget the arena and you've brought it back to life. How do you remember these things so exactly?"
"I see them every night," he says.

Suzanne Collins

#26. If we are going to touch the people of our communities, we too must know their sorrows, feel for them in their temptations, stand with them in their heartbreaks. Jesus Christ entered into the arena of our troubles, and He wept with them that wept and rejoiced with them that rejoiced.

Billy Graham

#27. You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

Chris Van Hollen

#28. A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

Rex Stout

#29. The unlived life is not worth examining ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

Jo Coudert

#30. The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!

Tim Cook

#31. I've been fortunate and blessed to further my career in the Arena Football League, and I've had a good time doing it.

Jeff Garcia

#32. The arena messed us all up pretty good, don't you think? Or do you still feel like the girl who volunteered for your sister?

Suzanne Collins

#33. An ordinary day. I get up early, drive to the airport, from there driving to the arena where we wrestle. Then if we have a show I will take another plane for my destination. Otherwise I will take a plane to return home and fall in bed very, very late.

Chris Jericho

#34. Concetta and Domenico Costa, Mariana Pontillo, the Arena family. We live.

Laurie Fabiano

#35. When you're in the arena ... you just remember who the enemy is.

Suzanne Collins

#36. This occasional sports columnist, who has been to his share of Super Bowls, had been glad to be home on Super Bowl Sunday, but the scary commercials made me want to be in the melee of the arena, where you are not aware of commercials.

George Vecsey

#37. God's grace always assists those who struggle, but this does not mean that a struggler is always in the position of a victor. Sometimes in the arena the wild animals did not touch the righteous ones, but by no means were they all preserved untouched.

John Of Shanghai And San Francisco

#38. A gladiator only gets to use a real sword when he fights in the arena, since no Roman worth his salt trusts a gladiator with a real sword in the ludus. You have that ungrateful wretch Spartacus to thank for that.

Simon Scarrow

#39. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

Bruce Robinson

#40. I have pretty thick skin. I've been in the arena a long time, and that means that I am not going to get down with [Donald Trump] and go insult for insult.

Hillary Clinton

#41. Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge.

Desiree Rogers

#42. Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing.

Audre Lorde

#43. It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death."
"Don't be so superior. You can never tell what you will find in the arena. Say it's a gigantic cake-

Suzanne Collins

#44. The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

Catharine MacKinnon

#45. The disruption of the broadcast. Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too. "Like your electricity trap in the arena?" I ask. "Exactly. And see how well that worked out?" says Beetee. Well ... not

Suzanne Collins

#46. The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

Salman Rushdie

#47. Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

Suzanne Collins

#48. I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.

Evel Knievel

#49. It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred ... Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena

Suzanne Collins

#50. Behind the bar hung a photo of Roni Loveless, the boxer who, ordered to throw a fight, burst through an inner struggle to beat not only his opponent but everyone in the arena and its locality in an outward-blooming explosion of violence against suppressive mediocrity.

Steve Aylett

#51. It is not the critic who counts ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena ...

Theodore Roosevelt

#52. To associate art with the artist is to forfeit art, because at this moment we are pushed into the arena of self-expression, and can be recognized only by what differentiates us from others.

Anthony Marais

#53. Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

Carre Otis

#54. There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

James A. Baldwin

#55. As a performer, I want to hit the last row of the arena. I want to make big moves. I'm a spaz, naturally.

Mark McGrath

#56. I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

Richard Kadrey

#57. A trapdoor had slammed open at the edge of the arena, followed by another and another. Slowly, reluctantly, animals were forced through the gaps. Lions, tigers, bears. "Oh my!" said the Doctor, as the trapdoors slammed shut again.

Jacqueline Rayner

#58. Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem

Suzanne Collins

#59. Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.

Anthony Fauci

#60. That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

Brene Brown

#61. Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female ...
I am going back into the arena.

Suzanne Collins

#62. So the bed that had been the arena of their passion became the support of her illness.

John Williams

#63. The prayer closet is the arena which produces the overcomer.

Paul Billheimer

#64. The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.

Seneca The Younger

#65. God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.

K. Howard Joslin

#66. I've come this come all this way and suddenly I'm back in the arena, watching Silvers display everything we are not.

Victoria Aveyard

#67. I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Aneurin Bevan

#68. I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

Johnny Vegas

#69. Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.

Steven Furtick

#70. It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things. The battle appears to be forever joined. The armies, ignorant and enlightened, clash by day as well as night. Chicago is America's dream, writ large. And flamboyantly.

Studs Terkel

#71. A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. From a letter to Winnie Mandela,

Nelson Mandela

#72. Yes, and I'm sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.

Suzanne Collins

#73. But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the arena. The teachers didn't go into much more detail, which is surprising, because that was the year District 12's very own Haymitch Abernathy won the crown.

Suzanne Collins

#74. The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Clark Moustakas

#75. Something inside me twists as I remember another voice. Rue. In the arena. When I gave her the leg of groosling. "Oh, I've never had a whole leg to myself before." The disbelief of the chronically hungry.

Suzanne Collins

#76. New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thoughts develop.

Neil Postman

#77. Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

Jonathan Waterman

#78. Once I'm at the arena with the guys in the dressing room, and in the bus, and on the plane, I'm a player. And I sit in the back with the players and I play cards and try to take their money.

Mario Lemieux

#79. The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Aimee Mullins

#80. The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.

John Elway

#81. I want the audience to recognize you when you're in the arena," says Cinna dreamily. "Katniss, the girl who was on fire.

Suzanne Collins

#82. Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.

Brene Brown

#83. Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena ... long before the lights come up.

Muhammad Ali

#84. For home games, I bring my clothes to the arena. I bring two different outfits that I can pick after the game. Road game, I got to wear what I walk in with.

Dwyane Wade

#85. O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

Walt Whitman

#86. It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

Steven Pressfield

#87. Beetee's glad we find the plan hard to follow, because then our enemies will, too.
Like your electricity trap in the arena? I ask.
Exactly. And see how well that worked out? says Beetee.
Well ... not really, I think.

Suzanne Collins

#88. Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta.

Suzanne Collins

#89. He mighta spent a couple years under the arena training young wrestlers ...

Roddy Piper

#90. You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-"
"Say we move on," I broke in.

Suzanne Collins

#91. It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Robert Kennedy

#92. We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environments, and appropriate contraception for everyone ... doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.

John Guillebaud

#93. It was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high.

J.K. Rowling

#94. Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

John Davidson

#95. The drunk and the maimed both are dragged forward out of the arena like a boneless Christ, one man under each arm, feet dragging, eyes on the aether.

David Foster Wallace

#96. The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.

Zadie Smith

#97. We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our battles.

Sherwood Anderson

#98. I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.

Victoria Woodhull

#99. In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Aristotle.

#100. A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.

George Saunders