Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Vennell

A former games boxer I met in the pub the other day said if you ever get the opportunity go to it because it's better than the Olympics.

Jim McNally

There will be some very good contests this year. There are a lot of good boxers back from last year.

Dan Birmingham

This is huge for Chad. This is what he?s been waiting for, what he?s been working for and his life as a boxer is on the line. He?s ready for it and Harding is in for a long night.

Freddie Roach

Z has the potential to be a world champion. He's a very good prospect. He's a solid boxer, but he's not a huge puncher. He's probably a better boxer than Manny and he has good fundamentals, but Manny just has such power and speed. But Z is quick and technically very sound.

Gene Luen Yang

When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

Dan Hill

Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

Jermain Taylor

Every boxer that puts on the gloves dreams of someday hearing the words 'and new champion...'

Andre Seymour

We have exceptional talent, even in the Family Islands but we have to go in there with something new. The local coaches could only take us so far. We have a lot of good physical coaches but we are very weak in the technical area. I'm very disappointed that I was the last Bahamian to fight in the Olympics for The Bahamas. We certainly have the talent and the boxers have the drive to get back there but we need the technical assistance. Winning Caribbean Championships is not enough. We have to win the big one to help us prepare for the Olympics.

Marguerite Gardiner

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Gaby Bussell

The region (5) we are in now is not as intense. It was good to play some of our old rivals again. Going to state is helping to make all of our team's dreams come true.

Keith Anderson

It's just been one of those years when so many dreams have come true.

Ayad Allawi

For half a second, I wondered if I was dreaming. I saw something flickering, and I knew I was not dreaming.

Mark Philippoussis

It's the normal thing to do and I was living, you know, other guy's dreams that they dream of and you're in a position to live that life. Why not do it? And I got it out of my system and I've realized that they're not the most important things in life.

Hugh Hefner

It's the music of my youth. It's the music I grew up with. It's the music of my dreams.

Neil Peart

You don't get something for nothingYou can't have freedom for freeYou won't get wiseWith the sleep still in your eyesNo matter what your dreams might be

Jonathan Lewis

It's a game every kid who plays football dreams about playing in. This is just a dream come true.

Samaire Armstrong

It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.

Randy Couture

This is the last time you'll see me in these gloves and these shorts in this Octagon, because I'm retiring. That's it for me. It's time to do something else.

John Turner

Prior to the chair, (detention officers) would have to put on rubber gloves and go into (the inmates') bodies.

Paul Bliss

We give them gloves and put them right in there. We don't pull any punches.

Robert Buchanan

There's no question that Wal-Mart is 'taking the gloves off' on price heading into the holiday,

Tim McCarver

Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.

Dick DeGuerin

Now we can really take the gloves off.

Pat Bowlin

She struggled. She started good, but then she put on these wool gloves and got a rash. Her hands turned raw. We had to tape her hands up for her to play.

Jimmy Rollins

I had two good swings there. That's part of baseball. You don't get rewarded for good swings all the time. You have guys there with gloves and that's what they're paid to do is get you out.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Michael Strahan

People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!

Arlen Specter

We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.

Bill Nye

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Golf Brooks

We have no practices at all. We just wing it. It's spontaneous. No one knows what to expect. Even hearing the same song we played the week before, it could come off different. Everything's off the wall. It comes out better that way.

Orrin Hatch

We want everything so if hearings aren't justified, we won't hold them, ... If they are, we will.

Charles Rosen

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

Beth Moore

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

Marita Payne

A lot of Americans just know the stereotypical things about Australia. The first year, I got pretty sick about hearing the same things over and over again, so I started playing along. Some of the things people come up with are pretty funny.

Heath Neiderer

They know someone who is there, perhaps it's a sibling or cousin. They are also hearing their parents talk about it.

Kofi Annan

Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.

Lori Reynerson

Always wear condoms. Having sex with someone you don't have a relationship with puts you at risk for some very serious problems.

Mike Erlandson

It puts him (Warner) in the top three on the stage for 2008.

Phil Garner

Roy is not a promoter. He's very laid-back. That's not a show he puts on.

Jim Stone

This puts them on the same side of the table as you,

Francis Bradley

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Chad Clanton

We're going to be ready for Katherine Harris. Or whoever the other side puts up.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Dan Auerbach

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

Andrea Gibson

Someday we will dare to trade good for true

S. E. Hinton

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

Sylvia Plath

If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.

Steven Morrissey

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

Tom Cruise

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Patricia Briggs

Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner - but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Sherry Turkle

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

David Hume

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Carlos Castaneda

Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?