The best Quotes by Emil Zatopek

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

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You really need to consider the message you're sending this boys by ending the lockout. It's the same message that we as a culture send to our professional athletes; and that is that they are above the law. If these boys cannot honor the simple rules of a basketball contract, how long do you think it will be before they're out there breaking the law? I played ball here at Richmond High 30 years ago. It was the same thing then; some of my teammates went to prison, some of them even ended up dead. If you vote to end the lockout, you won't have to terminate me; I'll quit.

Ken Carter in Coach Carter

Basketball Sports

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

Bill Belichick

Talent Sports

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

Louis Zamperini

Giving Up Sports Motivation

When you go running from 23:59 to 00:01, you worked out two days in a row. Doesn't sound bad, does it?

Sports

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

Yao Ming

Sports Communication

What I really love about sports isn't winning, ya know? It's having to fight and struggle and give it all you got to reach the top.

Aoi Asahina in Danganronpa

Sports

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

Skylar in The In Between

Ambition Sports

People always ask me, "what is your secret?" I'll tell you what the secret is: Work your a-s off in the gym, 14 times a week.

Markus Rühl

Sports

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

Herm Edwards

Sports

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

Marv Levy

Sports

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Walter Payton

Sports

Jogging is the worst. I know it keeps you healthy, but God, at what cost?

Ann Perkins in Parks and Recreation - Season 4 Episode 7

Sports Jogging

Sometimes it's just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don't move.

Ryan Reynolds

Sports

When you read biographies of Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Pete Sampras or Roger Federer, you will often stumble upon the word "humility".

Thomas Tuchel

Michael Jordan Tiger Woods Pete Sampras Roger Federer Humility Sports

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

Virender Sehwag

Sports

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.

Urvashi Rautela

Sports Motivation

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

Derek Jeter

Sports Motivation

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Heywood Broun

Sports

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Lies Men Taking action Talking

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Men Women

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Coco Chanel

Men

When a guy does something stupid once, well that's because he's a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl.

Once-ler in The Lorax

Men

Tell a man: "I hate you" - you'II have the best sex of your Iife. But tell him: "I Iove you" - you'II probably never see him again.

Samantha Jones in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 10

Men Sex Singles & Dating

As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.

Coco Chanel

Men

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Friendship Men Women

I've known a great many clever men. I've outlived them all. Do you know why? I ignored them.

Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones - Season 7 Episode 2

Men

Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

Rudolfo Anaya

Crying & Tears Men

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Chuck Norris

Men

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

Ann Bancroft

Men

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

Janeane Garofalo

Men

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

Men Men & Women

Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then.

Kiersten White in The Chaos of Stars

Men

What is it with men and asking for directions?

Dory in Finding Nemo

Men

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

Frank Sinatra

Men

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Lana Turner

Men Women Success

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

Smartphones

There are well over 250 victims, so we have to make sure that their identity is protected. Other than that, I think tomorrow you're gonna see some Epstein information being released by my office. What you're gonna see is a lot of flight-logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

James Comey

FBI

It's sitting on my desk right now to review. The Trump administration is committed to truth and transparency.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

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