Michael Flatley Quotations

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.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My heart is saddened with the news of the Pope's passing. He was truly the greatest man on the planet, the nearest to a saint.

I also know that Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson were both dancers. For some reason there's that correlation there. I mean I don't know what it is but I think we love to be challenged and we love to count on ourselves.

I think as an artist I strive to make people feel things, and move people, and I think that's what this show does.

Between you and me, Erik, a few pints of Guinness and I can go even faster, you know,

Feet of Flames was a great show, hugely successful. I know a lot of people were upset with me when I didn't continue it. But it's hard to be working on a new work of art when you're still dancing in another one.

There's a great saying - the older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune,

Probably the only similarities - if anyone recognizes my work - is the fast, hard-hitting dance that's in it, the tap sounds, and the line of powerful dancers.

It wasn't for the money, God knows. If it was, I wouldn't need to be touring now,

It is very fast moving, powerful and hard-hitting and I think that it is something that you have never seen before.

It takes you through the Viking and the Norman invasions, the British occupation, the great famine in 1840 and the rising (for independence) of 1916.

I'm not obsessed with how I look I just need to be really fit in order to dance.

I really retired from the Feet of Flames show because I had already begun work on a new show in my mind.

Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom. Celtic Tiger is my finest work to date. Budapest is one of my favourite cities in the world and I can think of no greater place to preview my new show.

My dancers are the real stars,

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

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

I'll try anything once, most things twice.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture...

I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.

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?

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

Promise me you will appreciate every moment because we are the lucky ones

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.

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.

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.