Tony Dorsett Quotes

#1. All a lot of women see are dollar signs.

Tony Dorsett

#2. People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

Tony Dorsett

#3. Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

Tony Dorsett

#4. You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.

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#5. But I am not here and never have been.

Sarah Kane

#6. Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

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#7. To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

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#8. Our brains are not actually duplex apartments occupied by feuding neighbors, and how we bring about the complicated act of deceiving ourselves remains a mystery.

Kathryn Schulz

#9. I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

Alex Chiu

#10. No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

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#11. In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.

Kathleen Quinlan

#12. My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

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#13. It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.

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#14. To me, he has his own style. He doesnt remind me any more of myself than I did (other tailbacks). I did things to remind people of Tony Dorsett, but it was a different style. Hes a guy who can catch balls like Marshall Faulk or somebody like that.

Barry Sanders

#15. I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

Kris Kristofferson

#16. Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

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#17. I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up.

Beth Riesgraf

#18. I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.

Emmitt Smith

#19. I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

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#20. I always love depth. I like looking through windows, through frames, through spaces into other spaces.

Scott Hicks

#21. You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

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#22. The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

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#23. For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me.

Tim Brown

#24. You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.

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#25. I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

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#26. I want to study the secrets tucked between his elbows and the whispers caught behind his knees. I want to follow the lines of his silhouette with my eyes and the tips of my fingers. I want to trace rivers and valleys along the curved muscles of his body.

Tahereh Mafi

#27. I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

Tony Dorsett