Michael Flatley Quotes

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself.

I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.

Since I was a kid, I've been a dancer, and, of course, I'll always be a dancer till the day I die.

Follow your dreams, because you wouldn't want it so bad if you couldn't have it. The universe gives you these dreams because you can have them. If you're willing to work for it, you can have anything you want.

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?

If I never do another show, I'll die a happy man.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world.

I'm at a stage in my life when I want a wife and a family.

I'll try anything once, most things twice.

I can go back to when I was six years old. I was always getting in trouble for dreaming, and the things I got in trouble for dreaming then are the things I'm doing today.

I don't believe that when you are 25 you are over the hill. Fifty is the new 30.

You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.