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Jake LaMotta Quotes

I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: July 10, 1922 - September 19, 2017

Topics

Me You Boxing Open Everything See

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

John Corigliano

Great Win Think Award You Become

I launched 'Lightspeed' magazine in 2010, and from day one, we've had a strict mission to try to have gender parity in the magazine because that was the first hurdle that science fiction and fantasy have been dealing with for a long time.

John Joseph Adams

Science Time Day Gender Mission Try

Believe in yourself, and don't let anyone stand in your way.

Believe In Yourself Yourself Believe

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Perseverance Courage Cat Conviction

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Stephen Leacock

Effort Law Game Golf View Sunday

We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.

People Sometimes Band Bar Out Front

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

God Myself Simple Happy Me Find

If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.

Life Crazy Think You Perfect Nobody

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Doing Buildings I Can Way See Up

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Pliny the Elder

Without Comparing Making Word Some

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

Start Voice Sometimes Matter My Own

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector.

Business History I Am Blue Excuses

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