Ben Johnson Quotes

I`m in a family of six. And I`m also engaged, and my grandparents want to come. The biggest group being overlooked is students who are underclassmen and friends (with the seniors).

It is very important that our people using the roadways realize how important it is to watch out for our children,

We`re definitely going to have our work cut out for us. (Corpus Christi) King, the defending district champ, is still pretty good and Miller is up and coming so simply put, we are going to have to take care of business if we want to get to regional.

Without i.Shop this level of integration would not have been practical. Both R.O. Writer and Delphi have embraced these standards that allow sharing of customer, shop and vehicle information between front and back shop applications. When we first implemented the i.Shop standards, this is the level of integration and efficiency we had envisioned being possible.

People can put things in your food and drinks to sabotage you, like they did to me in Seoul in 1988. I`m not a cheat - I do what I am supposed to do to win.

You know, I`d say that aside from Mr. Ford`s (John Ford) help in my career, I`d lay any success I`ve had to not expecting too much. I never expected to become a star and was always content to stay two or three rungs down the ladder and last awhile. When I do get a little ahead, I see what I can do to help others.

Everybody in town`s a better actor than I am, but none of them can play Ben Johnson.

I am saying 40% of people in sports are still using performance (enhancing drugs). I think that based on past experiences I have had. It is not only track and field, there are soccer players, football players, basketball players, cyclists and you would be surprised that some of the great players are doing stuff.

I would feel much better if we would have some consistency going in from the other spring tournaments, but it just hasn`t been there. It kind of makes you wonder if it`s all going to fall together or not at the right time.

(on leaving Oklahoma for Hollywood, where he became a horse wrangler for Howard Hawks on The Outlaw (1943)) I`d been making a dollar a day as a cowboy, and my first check in Hollywood was for $300. After that, you couldn`t have driven me back to Oklahoma with a club.

Yesterday (Tuesday) we put ourselves into position to do what we did today (Wednesday). I was overly pleased with the way we hung in there and pulled things out, especially in difficult conditions.

Absolutely. I Cheetah all the time.

We only have two players back from last year and everybody else is new to that top five and the pressure is a lot different in those spots.

(speaking about how his life was affected by winning the Oscar for The Last Picture Show (1971)) After I won that old Oscar, everybody thought I knew something. I didn`t know any more than I did before I won it, but they thought I did.