I learned to skate in our garage. We lived in the country in Florida, it was sort of farmish, and there was no cement anywhere else. Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground. Rodney Mullen
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. Mmuhammad ali
I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that. Steve Garvey
I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed. Michael Chang
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth. Joe Garagiola
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters. Alvin Dark
With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying. Wilt Chamberlain
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard. Cal Ripken Jr
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. Mark Twain
Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man. Larry Holmes
All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court. Venus Williams
And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned. Eddie Murray
As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person. Dan OBrien
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late. Tucker Max
Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.' Hollis Stacy
Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure. Byron Nelson
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. Rick Pitino
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. Roger Craig