Quotes

Darren Young was looking for someone to train him and finally he came and asked me if I wouldn't mind to be his life coach. I said, 'I sure would, you're a great man and good for the business.'

When I won the championship, my whole life changed. I was known all over the world.

I tell myself I have to work out to stay alive. I'm not just staying alive to stay alive, I mean stay alive and live a quality life.

I'd like to go to schools and give speeches to people about training, working hard and getting ahead in life.

When I think about 'All American Boy' I think of someone that lives by the Golden Rule: treat people how you wanted to be treated. That's one of my rules in life.

When I got out of my hometown of Glastonbury, Connecticut, I became 'Mr. Backlund' and if someone did not call me Mr. Backlund I just kept walking. I demanded respect because I believe that in life that respect is so important, especially for kids to respect others.

I read a book in 2005 called 'Think and Grow Rich' that changed my life.

When you work out it makes you feel better. It became my life's blood. It keeps me going every day.

Who would you rather have represent you? A regular guy like me or a lifelong politician?

Billy Superstar Graham dropped the WWF title to me, and that had the biggest influence because it changed my life.

My wife is an individual and we want our daughter to be her own person in life.

I'm a lifelong American.

Horses have been my life and I owe everything to them and the tremendous sport in which I have been so fortunate to be involved.

I didn't just show up as a walk-on back in 1989. I've done this my whole life, and I'd tell any young trainer to start in quarter horses because you have to do everything. I broke them, rode them, wrapped them and slept with them since I was a boy.

My philosophy about life is that we may not be in it for a long time, but we're in it for a good time.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.

I'm Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.

I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.

As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'