American Quotes

But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance.

Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

I have always been afraid of banks.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

One man with courage makes a majority.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.