If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.
What are you doing, looking at me with one eye and chasing a fly with the other?
Once you wrestke Rikki Atakki, an hour later you want to wrestle him again.
This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.
I asked Stu Hart earlier. I said, 'Stu, you gotta be proud of your boys. ' He said, 'I have boys?'
Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.
You're 83? Really? You don't look it. I would've guessed 81 or 82.
The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.
Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by a human hand. Somehow those pylons had been strung with wire, and those towers raised, and roofs tiled. There had been food and drink for millions of mouths. I don't cry easy, but my vision blurred as I stared on the ruins of what we had been, and I watched the small band of men in rags move toward it to pick at it like birds on the carcass of some giant.
Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.
The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.