Chael Sonnen Quotes

As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

Chael Sonnen

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• I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Car
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• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Want
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• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Evil
  • Human
  • Bed

• I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Relax

• I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Me
  • Name

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Walk
  • Winner
  • Edge

• Life has not been boring for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Me
  • Boring

• The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Business
  • Black

• A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • May
  • History
  • Society

• He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Lonely

• If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work
  • Light
  • Present

• Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words. I'm so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Different
  • Words
  • Powerful

• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Why
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• I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party girl'. I hate that. I bust my ass when I'm filming and when I have time off, yeah, I like to go out and dance.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hate

• The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.

  

  Margot Kidder
  • Sweet

• When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

  

  Dave Foley
  • School
  • American
  • History

• And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.

  

  Jonah Goldberg
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Running

• When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• We would get in the gap and then kick it out 15 feet, and that's nice because you're sharing the ball. But what we were trying to do was put the game away earlier, so we understood how you do put a game away.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Game
  • Ball
  • Gap

• We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.

  

  Des Browne
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Sometimes