Extraordinary Feats Quotes

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

I wish to work miracles.

He made the impossible possible.

But I have seen il Fenomeno do things that nobody else has ever done.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.

I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

On one of my birthdays I did 1,000 chin-ups and 1,000 push-ups. For my 70th birthday I towed 70 boats with 70 people in it, my feet and hands tied-my hands were in handcuffs, my feet were tied together-and I towed these boats a mile-and-a-half in Long Beach Harbor. For my 93rd birthday I'm going to tow my wife across the bathtub.

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

[It is nice] to explore someone's will to survive, the ferocity of loyalty, how far you would go to protect the ones you love... I believe women have more power than we give ourselves credit for... We have been known to lift cars off of babies! That's incredible.

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

That's something I embrace, just doing stuff not many people can do.

Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.

Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

The only thing that's different about doing a superhero show is that you can have your hero do things that a normal cop in a procedural can't do. But the structure of the storytelling is universal.

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.