Tony Dorsett Quotes

“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”

“To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”

“You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.”

“The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.”

“Even then, I was dreaming of Raistlin's black robes one moment, and Dorsett's spin move the next. This was what my father deeded--that our Knowledge of Self be more than America, that we understand the brain death that sprawled from the projects to the subdivisions. Consciousness was a beginning, but the imagination could turn straight 18s into paladins in plate, could make warrens in tunnels from graph paper, could pull armies of gnolls from miniatures--that was the Knowledge that ultimately would find a way out.”

“The anthology was not a best-seller”

“Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.”

“It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.”

“I don't really trust a sane person.”

“Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.”

“I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!”