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
• Victory
• Defeat
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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 know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• 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

• When picking a show, I took into consideration who my fans are. Let's be honest, Buffy was a mid-season replacement on The WB, based on a failed movie. If it wasn't for the outpouring of fans and critics supporting us, we would have been canceled after four episodes. Sure, you want to stretch and you want to do different things, but it's also our job to think about who our fans are and what they want to see. Ultimately, that's why we do.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Honest

• I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Respect

• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Secret

• In politics, purity is the enemy of victory.

  

  Haley Reeves Barbour
  • Enemy
  • Victory
  • Purity

• 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