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Cain Velasquez Quotes

I didn't see anybody in the media or on TV that played sports that looked like me. I didn't have those things growing up. Now that I'm in that position, I'm happy to be that person if I can.

Cain Velasquez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: July 28, 1982

Topics

Sports Happy Me Growing Up Media

I've always been physical. I have no concept of what life is like without physical activity.

Jessica Biel

Life Always Without Activity Been

Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been standing by vehicles for an hour, and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently.

Spike Milligan

Truck Drive Nothing Shepherd Driver

I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first.

Shirley Temple

Country Meeting Go Hand First Up

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

Tom Morello

Family Father Parents Movement Side

Forgiveness isn't just a blessing you deliver to another human being. Forgiveness is also a gift you give yourself.

Robin S. Sharma

Forgiveness Blessing Yourself Gift

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

Michael Lewis

Love Children Respect Achievement

I don't think Batman should spend a whole movie yapping, you know? He should choose his words carefully and speak low.

Jason O'Mara

Words Speak Think You Choose Know

I don't think you can erase history.

Johnny Van Zant

History Think You Erase

The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving.

Dick Van Dyke

Moving Secret Keeping

The ways in which I was obsessed with Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp 20 years ago is completely replicated by my daughters' and my crush on Marshawn Lynch and Richard Sherman now.

David Shields

Now Years Crush Daughters Obsessed

I have a lot of money.

Chuck Palahniuk

Money Lot

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

Suzanne Vega

Time Fearless Reality Result Living