Patrick Swayze Quotes

“All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.”

“As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.”

“Dance is the pure language of the soul – it's been with us from the very beginning.”

“Everything is designed to help you sell out.”

“Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.”

“Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.”

“How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.”

“I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.”

“I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.”

“I don't know what's on the other side.”

“I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.”

“I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.”

“I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in – then you know something's wrong.”

“I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.”

“I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.”

“I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.”

“I just love to work hard.”

“I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.”

“I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.”

“I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.”

“I took after my father.”

“I wanna live.”

“I want you to be nice... until it's time to not be nice.”

“I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.”

“I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.”

“I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.”

“I've had so many injuries.”

“I've never been one to run from a challenge.”

“If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.”

“If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.”