Mia Hamm Quotes

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

Mia Hamm

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• Luck marches with those who give their very best.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Best
  • Chance
  • Luck

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Inspiration
  • Cooking
  • Chefs

• I love to perform live.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Live
  • I Love
  • Perform

• Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Union
  • Dishes
  • Unloved

• I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Feeling
  • Ideas
  • Walking

• Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• 'It seems an uncommonly woundabout and hopelessly wigmawolish method of getting anywheahs.'

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • School
  • Clever

• Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Jesus

• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Action

• Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Humanity

• If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• New York is my, you know, second hometown.

  

  Masaharu Morimoto

• I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Women
  • Single

• The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

  

  Doug Stanhope
  • Good
  • Done
  • Funny

• What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Truth
  • History
  • Dream

• The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Humanity
  • Sacrifice

• I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

  

  Jay London
  • World
  • Worry

• You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Integrity

• Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Sacrifice