Jerry Spinelli Quotes

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

I was afraid when I came to the Royal Ballet that it would be easy to have everyone walking all over me if I didn't stick up for myself.

The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.

The weakest goes to the wall.

There's always people out there that's like, doubting me, you know what I mean? Even though I do embrace the people that embrace me and I'm grateful for them. But I always feel like, man, there's still people out there that's not giving it up. And I feel like I'm doing everything the right way, you know what I mean? I'm really going out of my way to do it the right way. I'm taking very few cheats - very few cheat codes that I'm using.

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

Haters will say what they want, but their hate will never stop you from chasing your dream

Stop living worried & discouraged. You have a Protector, Deliverer & Dream-Giver. No weapon formed against you can prosper.

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can

I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of an eye, my dreams of competing in a second Olympics were over. Even so, I got up, finished my routine, and saw twenty thousand people cheering. It was my first standing ovation.

The people who put you down don't have to stop you from chasing your dreams. Stand up, and prove them wrong.

These haters can't hold me back.

Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

I know society these days, I know people are wanting to find everything they can to pick things apart, but I have to write from my heart and my experiences, and I fully own them. Those are mine to share.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

I’m about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass.