Quotes About Belief

In 1974 or 1975, if someone had told me I was going to be an Olympic champion, I would not have believed it. Even in 1976, I'd not have believed it.

The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.

People watch the Olympics because they want to believe in heroes; I know I did.

My dad saw it as a goal before I did, when I was 12 years old. I didn't think competing in Olympics was possible until I was 16.

When God gave me the chance to compete in the Rio Olympics, I thought that He gave me the chance and I needed to give it my all.

The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.

I don't question the omnipotence of belief.

For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they believe an omnipotent God should do. It reasons that if God is all powerful, then certainly He would not have taken millions of years to make the earth.

I couldn't care less what people have got to say as long as I have the backing from the people that matter - the gaffer, family, and my team-mates - and they know what I am like as a person on and off the pitch. That's all that matters.

I'm just going to give them everything I have to give as a player and as a man on and off the field. I'm hoping with me doing that and being the leader that I am, it trickles down and becomes so contagious that everybody is doing it. That's how you change a program around with everybody buying in and believing in the same thing.

You have to believe in yourself. If you don't, things can go wrong both on and off the pitch.

On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.

What I believe is to keep working. How a film performs at the box office is not in my control: what is in my control is my work, how much honesty I can bring on-screen. I am happy people love me.

Once you lose your credibility, you can never restore it.

If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

I really believe that if you deserve something then one day you will get it.

One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

I always told everyone I'd be heavyweight champion of the world one day. They'd say, 'All right, whatever.' I said, 'OK, you'll see.'

I am seeking the will of God, living one day at a time.

We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

Many people want 'God bless America,' but they don't want 'One nation under God.' The problem is you can't have one without the other.