“I proved that you could be at 10 percent and still end up winning. And I did it in a mere eight weeks.”

— Jesse Ventura

Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! (2008)
Context: Now whether or not someone can participate in debates is based upon an arbitrary polling figure. You have to be polling nationally at 15 percent. If that criteria had been applied in Minnesota, I would not have become the governor. Because at the time of the primary, I was only polling at 10 percent. But I was allowed to debate, and I proved that you could be at 10 percent and still end up winning. And I did it in a mere eight weeks.

Ch. 15 (p. 286)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I proved that you could be at 10 percent and still end up winning. And I did it in a mere eight weeks." by Jesse Ventura?

Jesse Ventura103

American politician and former professional wrestler 1951

Related quotes

“In those days you didn't have to deal with the black market. You could go to your physician and just say, 'Listen, I want to gain some weight, and I want to take something.' Then the physician would say, 'Do it six weeks before competition, then it will be safe.' And that's what you would do. The dosage that was taken then versus taken now is not even 10 percent. It's probably 5 percent.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage

1992
Attributed

“Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.”

Irving Berlin (1888–1989) American composer

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

“He was exceptionally aggressive. He said I would do anything to get on television. That's rubbish. The fact is that out of the 10 tasks we were given to do in the series I was on the winning side eight times.”

James Max (1970) British journalist

Of Apprentice judge Paul Kemsley. Daily Telegraph 28 Apr 2005 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2914680/Had-bad-day-at-the-office---I-got-fired-and-2.5m-were-watching.html