62 Quotes by Derek Hough

There is a tremendous rush in defying your fears – staring them down and daring them to mess with you.

When I finally got upstairs, I threw up thirty-two times. I was deathly ill. But somewhere, in that haze of hellish food poisoning, it hit me: This is pretty cool! People know who I am!

There’s this great line in the song “Corner of the Sky”: “Don’t you see I want my life to be something more than long?” I can relate. I want to leave my footprint on this world in a positive, meaningful way.

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He’s playful, he’s full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

No problem is ever hopeless – not even when you’re facing your enemies with a stiff neck!

I understand now that someone who is strong and loves himself would only ever give love back. The superior human being will always see the light in someone and choose to encourage that light instead of dimming it.

The superior human being will always see the light in someone and choose to encourage that light instead of dimming it.

When you do so many different things, the plus is, you’re putting yourself out there. The minus is, you’re putting yourself out there.

Mr. Duwitt taught me math. He was an older man, and when he leaned over to show me how to work an equation, the smell of smoke and tobacco on his body was so pungent, it made me gag. His famous expression was “The mind boggles,” as in, “Derek, you can learn a complicated dance routine yet not figure out a simple simultaneous equation. The mind boggles!