Quotes About Perspective

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.