Eric Heiden Quotes

“I have a very close friendship with the skaters.”

“I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.”

“Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.”

“Life is only logical, and to think it's a gift is depressing.”

“Accept that you're just a product, not a gift.”

“Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.”

“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.”

“You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”

“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.”

“A thick skin is a gift from God.”