Jim Thorpe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].
-- Jim Thorpe

#Athlete #Warrior #Careers
Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.
-- Jim Thorpe

#Nfl #Track #Track And Field
The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.
-- Jim Thorpe

#Baseball #Team #Yankees
I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.
-- Jim Thorpe

#Sports #Running #Fun
I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.
-- Jim Thorpe

#Motivational #Athlete #Giving
I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.
-- Jim Thorpe

#Skills #Trying #Endurance

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
Dancers are the athletes of God.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.
I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro AlmodÃ³var, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it's not the only thing that I do.
Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because they have the money, they want to control all of you, .. They want to raise your taxes. It's all going in that direction -- raising your taxes. But I'm here as your warrior, remember that. I want to protect you.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.
When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.

Jim Thorpe famous quotes

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