Lee Haney Quotes

I was only 24 years old when I won my first Olympia. To be that young and the world champion was a lot of pressure. When I won the 8th one, I had the record. I was on top: that was the absolute best that I ever looked onstage, the best training and prep that I had done, and I had no regrets. I knew it was time to walk away.

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• When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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  • New York
  • Walk

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
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  • Black
  • Artist

• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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  • Goofy
  • Embarrass

• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
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• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

  Taron Egerton
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  • Great
  • Think

• I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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  • Chance
  • Luck

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Day
  • Doing
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• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
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• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • May
  • Game

• The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Single
  • Understand

• The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Cautious

• A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Culture
  • Enough
  • Resistance

• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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  • Someone
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• I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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  • Never
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• Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

  

  Francis Bacon
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  • Fortitude
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• I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Italian

• As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying to find evidence. It's what computer scientists in the old days used to call 'Fifo:' first in, first out. The first piece of information that gets in has a privileged position, even if it's misinformation.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Trying
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  • Brain

• I reckon I would be able compare anything to anything else if you gave me enough time.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Time

• I was only 24 years old when I won my first Olympia. To be that young and the world champion was a lot of pressure. When I won the 8th one, I had the record. I was on top: that was the absolute best that I ever looked onstage, the best training and prep that I had done, and I had no regrets. I knew it was time to walk away.

  

  Lee Haney
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