Lou Gehrig Quotes

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

Lou Gehrig

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• Challenges
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• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• Watch your finances like a hawk.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Watch
  • Finance
  • Hawk

• Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Business
  • Doing

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Brain

• I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Chocolate
  • Credit
  • Ice

• I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Music
  • Different
  • Think

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Direction
  • Tradition

• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nobody
  • Everybody
  • He

• Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Up
  • Running
  • Question

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Write
  • Produce

• If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Women

• I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent.

  

  Jason Katims
  • Life
  • Up
  • Wife

• As athletes, the biggest asset that we bring to the workplace is our work ethic, our confidence, our never-say-die attitude. We're about winning.

  

  Katrina Adams
  • Work
  • Die
  • Confidence

• If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Feel
  • Beauty
  • Start

• I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Challenge
  • Winning
  • Challenges