Rick Mears Quotes
America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
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I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
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Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
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America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.
