Mia Hamm Quotes

If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

Mia Hamm

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• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Spiritual
  • Positive
  • Driven

• The thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • School
  • High
  • Free

• In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Woman

• We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

  

  Blanche Lincoln
  • Work
  • Women
  • Society

• Ability is of little account without opportunity.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Life
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Songwriting

• In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Place
  • Diary
  • Draft

• It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Years

• That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Lies
  • Boring
  • Confusing

• If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

  

  Confucius
  • Business
  • Virtue
  • Consideration

• It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Growth
  • Victory
  • Nations

• Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Learn
  • Blame
  • Crisis

• We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Real
  • Love
  • Experience

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

  

  John Calvin
  • Instruments
  • Boundless
  • God's Wisdom

• You need to face what you're running from

  

  Melissa Marr
  • Running
  • Faces

• Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

  

  August Bournonville
  • Development
  • Dancer
  • Mannerism

• I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.

  

  Daryl Morey
  • Opinion
  • Should
  • Philosophy

• If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Dancer
  • Hips
  • Gymnast