The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

I don't care if I never see Texas again.

So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Control your life through insanity.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

Religion is induced insanity.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.