Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronda Rousey

I am vulnerable; that's why I fight.

Ronda Rousey

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

Trish Stratus

Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want?

Travis Kalanick

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

Travis Fimmel

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

Rick Riordan

Now fight me! For today thee House of Hades will be called the saviors of Olympus.

Rick Riordan

Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.

Rebecca Solnit

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.

Rick Warren

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

Rick Riordan

Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!

Rick Riordan

I imagined having that bronzed dragon in our fight against the Titan lord Kronos. His monsters would think twice about attacking camp if they have to face that thing. On the other hand, if the dragon decided to go berserk again and attack the campers-that would pretty much stink.

Rick Riordan

You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.

Rick Riordan

Good fighting with you, Seaweed Brain." Ditto.

Rick Riordan

Normally, as long as I'm telling him what to do, he wins in a fight.

Tony Snow

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

Steve Zahn

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

Veronica Roth

Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.

Veronica Roth

Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.

Veronica Roth

Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too.

Rebecca Solnit

Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use…time spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space — for wilderness and public space — must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space.

Robert Goulet

I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.

Robert Goulet

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

Robert G. Allen

Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

Sugar Ray Leonard

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end

Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

Sugar Ray Leonard

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

Sugar Ray Leonard

The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.

Sugar Ray Leonard

My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.

Sugar Ray Leonard

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

Studs Terkel

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.