Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken.
Your most difficult opponent is not the one facing you. Human nature, on the other hand, is.
Ike’s problem was that he was a musician who always wanted to be a star; and he was a star, locally, but never internationally… so he changed his name to Ike and changed my name to Tina, because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented, as they say.
We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we’ll go upstairs and sing until daylight – gospel songs. We grew up with it…It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
People think my life has been hard, but I think it’s been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realize that it’s not about what happens, but how you deal with it.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
We’ve crazy about cycling. We just so like it.
If you train hard, you not only become hard yourself, you also become hard to overcome.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
A football player will not do well if he can not run around Funen without breathing.
…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.
I think it was a really bad team they had assembled. I could not see what the party monkey and the toad face would help John Faxe Jensen with.
I ain’t no saint, but I’ve tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God…I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.