22 Quotes & Sayings By Mike Norton

Mike Norton is a former professional golfer who won the 1987 PGA Championship. He also won the FedEx Cup in 2002 and 2003, and was a member of the victorious Ryder Cup team in 1995. He is a former PGA of America president and executive director, a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame, and a five-time winner on "The Golf Channel's" reality series "Tough Enough." He also played the role of Danny Williams in the third season of NBC's hit television show "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." Mike is Chairman and CEO of Waste Management, Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States, with annual sales exceeding $11 billion. In 1996, Mike was named one of the most influential people in sports by Sports Illustrated. In 2001, he was inducted into "The World Golf Hall of Fame". He was ranked #67 on Sport Magazine's list of "100 Greatest Living Athletes" Read more

Mike is married to his wife Lynda and together they have two children, Megan and Luke. Mike also has two sons from his previous marriage: Patrick (born 1972) and Brian (born 1974). His brother Jim Norton currently stars on CBS' new late night show, "Mike & Molly".

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what...
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Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends. Mike Norton
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The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful. Mike Norton
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Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible. Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror. Mike Norton
For a man who walks in the light, to stay...
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For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man. Mike Norton
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The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present. Mike Norton
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The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way. Mike Norton
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Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. Mike Norton
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War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country? Mike Norton
A man of logic is a man of sin.
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A man of logic is a man of sin. Mike Norton
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The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world. Mike Norton
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Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn. Mike Norton
It is not what you can do for your country,...
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It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. Mike Norton
Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what...
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Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. Mike Norton
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us,...
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Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way. Mike Norton
So long as we are brave enough to accept the...
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So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice. Mike Norton
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Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man who wields the art of seduction without a sense of responsibility and restraint is a walking proximity bomb of viral epidemics, needless procreation, heartbroken families, and shattered dreams. Mike Norton
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One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run. Mike Norton
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Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt. Mike Norton
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Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves. Mike Norton
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When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow. Mike Norton
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Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful. Mike Norton