Emanuel Steward Quotes

You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

Emanuel Steward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 7, 1944 - October 25, 2012

Topics

FightPeopleYouLookSoccerWant

Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

Jesmyn Ward

WorkPeopleCareerSometimesWill

I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.

Jerrod Carmichael

GreatMeBetterTalkingYouWant

Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material.

Melvin Van Peebles

LifeTimeYouOverMaterialLot

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

John Oliver

DayJobYouWriteHardJokes

Football is an American sport. Everyone loves it. I certainly would never want to ban football.

Ann McKee

HopeLearnTraumaGreatestHow

It's so rare when marketing and press doesn't ruin your movie.

Jeff Baena

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A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

Michael Caine

BestYouChoiceNeverAnythingGet

As a black woman, the government is so much in my life, and it always has been.

Amanda Seales

LifeWomanGovernmentBlackMy Life

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Sue Monk Kidd

WorkHomeSoulIdentityMeaning

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

Simon Rattle

MusicPeopleListenNeedBringEven

I think there's a fine line, and once you cross it, you are in a dangerous territory of overhyping your company, your service, and your product and sort of under-delivering. But I think we probably could have been a little more overtly confident in the early days.

Julia Hartz

ServiceThinkConfidentYouEarly

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

Christopher Hitchens

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