Quotes from Ted Turner

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.