“Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“The excitement for me of being in this business is not following, it’s leading and having an inspiration. I’ve given all my feelings out in terms of my clothes. I feel like I write through my clothes.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“My point of view is I’m designing for the person who buys the clothes, and I’m filling their world, and I’m not making a dress, I’m making a dress for them.”— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com
“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com
“"I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.”— Emmitt Smith, successories.com
“You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the days you're gonna be hurt, or you're gonna rest or you're gonna have a drink or two. The rest of the time, be on that field.”— Hank Aaron, baseball-almanac.com
“Going out in public is a bit different; I'm even more noticed, but my heart is in surfing and it always will be.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com
“They've been knocking me down all season in the National League and I've still gotten my share of base hits.”— Roberto Clemente, en.wikiquote.org
“I will hit .450 if you give me Ralph Garr's legs, Johnny Bench's age and cut the travel schedule.”— Roberto Clemente, baseball-almanac.com
“I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.”— Roberto Clemente, baseball-almanac.com
“Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com