They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody. Michael Johnson
They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square. Willie Stargell
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. Mike Schmidt
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic. Wilt Chamberlain
To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on. Florance Griffith Joyner
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Joan Didion
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi
To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like. Dave Winfield
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. John Steinbeck
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. Mahatma Gandhi
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. Epictetus
We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good. Donald Miller
We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures. Jacqueline Carey