Beat Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we're going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

We're picking on people we can beat.

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!