A Quote by Charles Bukowski

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

Charles Bukowski

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Anything Beat His Horses Makes Man Mind Up

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Charles Bukowski
American - Novelist
August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Gish Jen

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.

King James I

Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.

The Ultimate Warrior

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

George Steinbrenner

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

Jean de la Bruyere

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

Paul Engle

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Norman Vincent Peale

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

Josh Billings

Well, Bill [Bill Hickok] was a pretty good shot. But he could not shoot as quick as half a dozen men we all knew in those days, nor as straight either. But Bill was cool, and the men who he went up against were rattled, I guess. Bill beat them to it. He made up his mind to kill the other man before the other man had finished thinking.

Buffalo Bill

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

Vince Lombardi

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.

Booker T. Washington

That's how you get better on defense; not just 'oh, man, my guy beat me,' but you have to think about, 'okay, my man beat me, so I either have to pick up the next man, or I'm going to give somebody a foul.