Dorsett Quotes & Sayings

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything. — Rush Limbaugh

Unlock hidden memories. Some trauma is just too much for the conscious mind to handle and you have to go in through a back door to access it. So I reluctantly submitted to a few sessions. It wasn't what I thought it would be. No swinging amulet, no metronome. It was more like those guided imagery exercises they'd sometimes have us do at camp. — Gayle Forman

To me, he has his own style. He doesnt remind me any more of myself than I did (other tailbacks). I did things to remind people of Tony Dorsett, but it was a different style. Hes a guy who can catch balls like Marshall Faulk or somebody like that. — Barry Sanders

Even then, I was dreaming of Raistlin's black robes one moment, and Dorsett's spin move the next. This was what my father deeded
that our Knowledge of Self be more than America, that we understand the brain death that sprawled from the projects to the subdivisions. Consciousness was a beginning, but the imagination could turn straight 18s into paladins in plate, could make warrens in tunnels from graph paper, could pull armies of gnolls from miniatures
that was the Knowledge that ultimately would find a way out. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. — Tony Dorsett

The anthology was not a best-seller; art as a weapon seldom is. — Lyle W. Dorsett

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are. — Tony Dorsett

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life. — Tony Dorsett

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. — Tony Dorsett

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking. — Francoise Sagan

So you do have more fight in you. (Thanatos)
Looks like the devil just hiked his ass up to Alaska to see the snow. C'mon, punk, let's dance. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The blessing begins at home. — Taka Sande

No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school. — Tony Dorsett

The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around. — Tony Dorsett

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics. — Lyle W. Dorsett

The route of the Christian is never clearly laid out beforehand. Like Matthew the tax collector, the disciple is simply called out. He is not immediately told where he is going, but he knows the One who has called and promises to walk with him. Consequently the journey, although never easy, is joyous and fruitful. — Lyle W. Dorsett

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least. — Beth Moore

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing. — Emmitt Smith

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports. — Tony Dorsett

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse. — Tony Dorsett

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race. — Jose Bergamin

For me certainly Earl Campbell and Tony Dorsett come to mind, and Roger Staubach. I've grown up here in Dallas watching Roger and his playing career and to be in the same fraternity as Roger Staubach is/was a huge deal for me. — Tim Brown

If you want to be happy, never ask for the gift of discernment. — Lyle W. Dorsett

You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say. — Tony Dorsett

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.' — Tony Dorsett

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God. — Lyle W. Dorsett

Many black women also kept guns within easy reach. But it is important to mention that women & their use of guns present the historian of the southern Freedom Movement with a particular problem. Many of the women from this era (like the men) have passed away & cannot be interviewed. And although a few of the men have written or been extensively interviewed about their role in self-defense, the women have publicly left little record & have generally been ignored in the discussion & debate over armed self-defense...For the most part, we do not know what many women who were active in the movement were thinking, or whether & how they organized for self-defense. Historians are therefore dependent on males for portrays & interpretations of women's thoughts & actions. — Charles E. Cobb

I don't control anything I create. — Rhonda Byrne

I do believe - that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far! Luke (ACT I, Scene 7) — Ian Doescher

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes. — Tony Dorsett

I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room. — Tony Dorsett

It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me. — Tony Dorsett

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me. — Tony Dorsett

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care. — Felix Dennis

You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players. — Tony Dorsett

All a lot of women see are dollar signs. — Tony Dorsett