With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

I could make good time because I was so long and skinny, shooting through the water like a stick.

I need freedom to be happy.

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.

Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years.

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?

I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.

There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

A fabulous pair of shoes? I have to have willpower.

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up.

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.

It's hard listening to myself.

I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

Exploitation mutilation mutations confirmation to the evils of the world.

Get a grip get a life and get over it.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

People who say you are ugly, may be true, because to them, you look like a monster. People who say you are beautiful, may also be true, because to them, you look like an angel.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

People don't assume John Wayne shoots people and rides a horse on weekends.

Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it.

There are roads out of the secret place within us which we must all move as we go to touch others.

Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.