Galveston Daily News Quotes

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.

There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.

You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

Political demagogues will seek popularity by public speeches full of insult to foreign countries, and yellow journals will seek to increase their circulation by appeals to prejudice against foreigners.

Reality is complex, but the politicians and the public demand simple answers.

Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.

This is a political season where politicians will do almost anything to prey on the public’s fear of job loses.

Criticizing presidents for weakess is standard in Washington because the world is a messy place and when bad things happen, Washington and the President can easily be blamed for them.

Some talk change. Others cause it..

As in the infirmity of human nature, no man's actions are always what he likes to look back upon, as there are points in which he would wish that he had acted otherwise; so every man who tells his own story is under a temptation more or less to disguise the truth; and the more in proportion as his actions have been upon a larger scale, and his faults or mistakes therefore have been more flagrant.

For [Donald] Trump, popularity equals truth... He understands that in American public discourse, it's hard to say the people are wrong.

You can never say, “I am humble.” You have disproved the assertion by saying it.

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.

Any other business, you want your competitors to go out of business. In sports, you just don't want them to have as good a record as you do.

What I love is to win. What I love is being number one.

At times, maybe I'm too competitive for my own good.

You're not gonna do what we do better than we do it. Even if you're doing what we do, you're not gonna do it better. I'm absolutely convinced of that.

There was always sibling rivalry. Tennis, football, boxing, whatever - you always want to come out on top of big sis.

I want to beat everyone I'm playing against.

If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.

I've always done pretty well for myself here in the U.K., but I was never going to be content being a big fish in a small pond.

You've got to work hard, got to outwork the other guy and got to outwork the other team. Sometimes outsmart them every now and then, but it all starts with the work.

My goal is to actually top him and be bigger and busier than John Cena.

You have to put the extra hours in if you're not up to scratch with everyone else.