Quotes
Quotes about Men
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.]
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.
Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.
In the faces of men and women I see God.
It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing.
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitmentâ¦. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings. (on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991)
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. (on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota, 1996.)
