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I wasn't an Uncle Tom and I never was gonna be.

- Rocky Johnson

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Fighting cancer taught me more than I ever could have imagined, but I've beaten it. - Daniel Jacobs

Once I beat Gervonta Davis like I've been calling it, that's going to be like history repeats itself with Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali. - Ryan Garcia

#History Repeats Itself

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved. - Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm a Mexican fighter. I just like fighting. I like staying in the pocket. - Chris Arreola

If I beat Canelo Alvarez at Madison Square Garden, I wake up the next day the king of New York and the new face of boxing. - Rocky Fielding

I'm the best out there. - Demetrius Andrade

I'm down for making history. - Jermell Charlo

Don't let the good looks and the playboy image fool you. I'm very serious. - James DeGale

Broner is a very good puncher. He's a very good boxer, very good puncher. - Marcos Maidana

I've got two kids and a missus. I don't want problems after boxing. You need to be careful. - Carl Frampton

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!' - Evander Holyfield

You know, I'm a man, and men are proud and stubborn. We don't go running to the doctor when something's wrong. We let it play out a little bit. - Daniel Jacobs

I'm a finisher. I'm a shark, and if I see blood, I'm gonna finish you. - Chris Arreola

I believe I can make my advantages in size and reach count. - Rocky Fielding

I want to keep getting better, being a great teammate and try to keep learning from our guys and help as much as possible. I'm not satisfied with where I'm at. - Quinn Cook

#Getting Better

I've just learned that you can't take this game for granted. You have to stay professional and stay focused and stay prepared to produce and continue to work hard. Nothing's given. - O. J. Mayo

As a big, you don't want to be the first one to shoot. - Kevon Looney

I've always been a player who played with a chip on my shoulder. - Avery Bradley

You know I'm a Chicago kid, and Chicago will always have a big piece of my heart. But with Milwaukee - for me it was just love at first sight. As soon as I got here, I was like, Wow, this is the place for me. - Jabari Parker

Everybody has good and bad days. - Boban Marjanovic

At the end of the day, you go through different paths in the league. I wouldn't change anything about it. - Marcus Morris

#End Of The Day

Since I was growing up, I was always the younger one playing with older guys. They called me Young Bull and that just stuck. - Collin Sexton

Know sometimes you might have to sacrifice minutes or scoring opportunities just for the betterment of the team. And I think once everybody buys into that, I think that's how you get tighter as a group and start winning more games. - Derrick Favors

I've always got the thrill of just putting on that uniform and going out there and playing. - Bam Adebayo

I think the coaches are trying to push me and get me out of my comfort zone in being able to communicate with my teammates and being more of a leader on the floor. - Tyler Herro

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball. - Dion Waiters

You know that social media can be a harsh thing, man. - Rasheed Wallace

Working hard - that's South Sudan. We're tall, dark skinned, beautiful - I'm always proud of that. - Thon Maker

I'm in the NBA and I won a championship. I had some great things happen, but I'm not satisfied. - Quinn Cook

I wanted to be like Juwan Howard, whose basketball camp I went to as kid for six years. Those camps meant everything to me and my friends. We'd all seen Juwan on TV and then... there he was. In our gym. We could see him. We could give him a high five. - Jabari Parker

When I was in Boston, I averaged 14 a game. - Marcus Morris

I love Kobe Bryant, was a Lakers fan for sure. - Collin Sexton

You just learn every year, being around the game long enough, facing hitters more and more. - Patrick Corbin

It's important to play the right way. If you play the right way, it's so much fun. - Zaza Pachulia

I'm not good at math. - Yu Darvish

Zito was my favorite pitcher for a good long time, pretty much until Lincecum came into the league. Obviously, if you know Barry Zito, you know the big curveball. So that was kind of my inspiration for learning how to throw it. Tried to pattern that pitch off of him as much as possible. - Trevor Bauer

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine. - Ernie Banks

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child. - Willie Stargell

I rely on a lot of green drinks to get my vegetables. - Tim Tebow

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from 'Mr. Belvedere,' too. We stay in touch. - Bob Uecker

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us. - Jackie Robinson

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there. - Bo Jackson

But I have a home in Arizona now. I've loved coming up with this organization and being with these guys. - Patrick Corbin

Obviously, the hotel is related to my name, so my mom makes sure the staff, the service, the cleaning part of it is 100 out of 100. Not 99, 100 out of 100. We've got great reviews because of that. That's why a lot of people want to stay out our place, because we provide a lot of good services. - Zaza Pachulia

It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger. - Yu Darvish

You want to be one of the main guys out there with your teammates and contributing. - Trevor Bauer

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going. - Ernie Banks

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line. - Willie Stargell

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can. - Bo Jackson

My dad is kind of a quiet guy and he keeps to himself a little bit. But he was a competitor at whatever he did, and it kind of carried on with me. - Patrick Corbin

I had no idea about running a hotel, but as an investment, as a property in real estate, it was very interesting because we got a great deal. Talking to my mom, I said, 'Listen, we're going to buy this, but I need somebody to run it.' So I asked my mom, 'Are you willing to do it?' - Zaza Pachulia

A couple of Astros players told me I was tipping pitches, but now it comes out they were stealing signs. Was I tipping, or were they stealing? - Yu Darvish

I understand that the truth can upset people, but I'm never going to stop sticking up for myself, or for what I think is right. - Trevor Bauer

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations. - Ernie Banks

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can. - Willie Stargell

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team. - Bob Uecker

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare. - Jackie Robinson

I've been able to throw it for a strike, which has helped. If I'm not able to do that, I'm not going to have success with it. - Patrick Corbin

Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don't like either. - Yu Darvish

Racism exists, but what I want to do is start a dialogue. - Charles Barkley

Valet parking is an essential at any decent club. - Dan Jenkins

With all respect to Congressman Lewis, when I think about him, I always have that image in my mind when he was on the Selma Bridge. The truth of the matter is, with all that he has given towards the fight for civil rights - which we greatly appreciate - these are no longer the days of marching over the Selma Bridge. - Angela Stanton-King

When I compete, I love a huge crowd, expectation, pressure, and I like to have nerves: the butterflies flying and my hands shaking. This way, I am completely amped, focused, and ready; otherwise, I tend to be to relaxed, content, and don't perform at my maximal potential. - Caroline Buchanan

Of course I cannot win all the matches, but just to play my game. - Simona Halep

A man never stands taller than when he stoops to help a child. - Chi Chi Rodriguez

The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get. - Adam Peaty

#Believe In Yourself

When you get blitzed on every pick-and-roll aggressively, you've just got to find the open teammate. - Manu Ginobili

The Internet can be deceiving. Don't believe everything your read. Or you see. - Duncan Robinson

I want to be the best at what I do, and that's just me. That's what comes with Mack. - Khalil Mack

International Space Station, it's huge, I would say, space building. When you just can see it - and you can see it actually from five kilometers perfectly well when the sun is rising - and you can't imagine, or can't believe, that this miracle was built by people, by humans. - Sergey Volkov

So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time. - Philippe Perrin

I like to see the flag up flying proudly. When I'm in space I represent that flag. - Jack Swigert

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space. - Robert Crippen

In Japan there is a lot of manga, but around manga there are video games, manga on cellphones, manga in card games... so people not only enjoy manga but also the products around it. - Tite Kubo

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. - Catherine Opie

I would love 'Patsy' to join the ranks of superhero comics that have something for everybody and are new-reader-friendly, with an adventure every issue. - Kate Leth

My father did advertising photography. - Andreas Gursky

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. - Georges Rouault

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped. - Mark Tobey

A great painting is a great painting. - Larry Poons

I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person. - Jamie Hewlett

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay. - Toyin Odutola

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere. - Maurice Denis

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore. - Ben Shahn

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future. - Mary Cassatt

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf. - Olafur Eliasson

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood. - John Baldessari

I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all. - Francis Alys

I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast. - Jamie Wyeth

I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things. - Lawrence Halprin

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place. - Bernard Tschumi

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. - Norton Juster

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead. - Stephen Gardiner

It's because I feel comfortable that way... not wearing a bra looks more natural and prettier. - Sulli

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit. - Bea Arthur

Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can. - Debby Ryan

I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to. - Deborah Kerr

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