Oerter Discus Quotes & Sayings

Wherein cunning, but in craft? Wherein crafty, but in villainy? Wherein villainous, but in all things? Wherein worthy, but in nothing? — William Shakespeare

Peter wasn't used to girls, and now there were four staring at him. He wished he had jumped out the window. — Jack Lewis Baillot

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history. — Al Oerter

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that? — Ronda Rousey

It's amazing, the impunity with which history gets rewritten. — C. Gockel

Even the most high-maintenance boss isn't going to sit and watch you the whole time, making sure you're paying attention to them, whereas with a child, it's like, 'Wait, what? You're not watching me right now? Really? Then I'm going to go spill this milk.' Even bosses from hell don't behave like that! — Ivanka Trump

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out? — John Godfrey Saxe

I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time. — Ralph Fiennes

Why do they bother saying "raw sewage"? Do some people actually cook that stuff? — George Carlin

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom. — Virgil

You had to hand it to human beings. They had one of the strangest powers in the universe. Even her grandfather had remarked upon it. No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligence, that had propelled them up the evolutionary ladder. Trolls and dwarfs had it, too, that strange ability to look at the universe and think "oh, the same as yesterday, how dull. I wonder what happens if I bang this rock on that head?" And along with this had come the contrary power, to make things normal. The world changed mightily, and within a few days humans considered it was normal. They had the most amazing ability to shut out and forget what didn't fit. They told themselves little stories to explain away the inexplicable, to make things normal. Historians — Terry Pratchett

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now. — Jill Scott

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed. — David A. Bednar

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other. — Al Oerter