More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting. Curt Schilling
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. Poppy Z. Brite
My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression. Jim Thome
My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.' Peyton Manning
My dad's great. He's my biggest supporter. He's always told me that whatever I choose to do, I can do it. I just gotta put my mind to it. Apolo Ohno
My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. Wilma Rudolph
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.orson welles
My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck. Shaquille ONeal
My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it. Jack Johnson
My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?' Peyton Manning
My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.' Robin Roberts
My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right. Derrick Rose
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't. Marilyn Monroe
One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes. Robert Griffin iii
People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation. Nancy Kerrigan
Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.Ricky Williams
Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.' Marilyn Monroe
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss. Dan Quisenberry