Bob Beamon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.
-- Bob Beamon

#Sports #Thinking #Media
In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
-- Bob Beamon

#New York #Team #School
I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge took a chance and gave me one. They were getting ready to send me away to do real time, but they sent me instead to a juvenile alternative day school. And I guess that was the beginning of my turnaround.
-- Bob Beamon

#Real #School #Responsibility
Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
-- Bob Beamon

#Halfway
If my dreams can happen to me, your dreams can happen to you. Champions are not made on the track or field; champions are made by the things you accomplish and the way you use your abilities in everyday life situations.
-- Bob Beamon

#Softball #Sports #Dream

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world). The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.
It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.
The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

Bob Beamon famous quotes

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