Roy Jones Jr. Quotes

I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.

Roy Jones Jr.

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I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.

Johanna Siguroardottir

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When I got out of college in 1991, I had four jobs in four different parts of L.A. There was I Love Juicy, a smoothie bar in Venice, and the Videotheque on Sunset Boulevard, across from the old Tower Records. I was also an intern at the 'Los Angeles Reader' in the Miracle Mile and at 'High Performance' magazine downtown.

Jenji Kohan

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Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

Jennifer Granholm

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I'm not scared of Jon Jones or Chris Weidman or whoever. I'm here to fight. That's it. It's simple.

Anderson Silva

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When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

Robert Rodriguez

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Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.

Matt Kemp

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I think the beautiful part about Yao is that his main legacy won't be about the game. His legacy will be about helping people. His legacy will be taking on important world causes to better his world.

Jeff Van Gundy

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I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

John Pomfret

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If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

Sparky Anderson

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I'm Greek-American, and I come from an immigrant-type background, and Greek-American parents want you to be a doctor or a lawyer. Because that's how you make money, and it's very respectable.

Steve Zissis

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I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

Stone Gossard

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I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

Ronald D. Moore

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