Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sugar Ray Leonard

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

Stuart Rose

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

Stewart Cink

My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.

Sonny Vaccaro

Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school.

Sonny Vaccaro

Kobe [Bryant] had the biggest contract for a high school kid. He was the first one to get more than a million a year.

Sonny Vaccaro

What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.

Steve Irwin

I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable.

Steve Jobs

My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules... That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids.

Steve Jobs

We limit how much technology our kids use at home.

Steve Case

If you can build a company and make money, great. But eventually, my intention is to give all my money away. I told my kids that. [Wealth] is not particularly helpful to kids. It's almost a burden. It's better to allow them to do their own thing and have their own successes.

Steve Earle

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

Steve Coogan

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Stephen Moyer

I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

St. Vincent

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

Sonia Braga

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

Sonia Braga

If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.

Ruta Sepetys

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

Rosie O'Donnell

Every kid should sit in the velvet at least once in their lifetime.

Roger Stone

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

Roger Taylor

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

Sam Shepard

I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

Rush Limbaugh

The education system is where young skulls full of mush are programmed and propagandized into the system. They are highly valuable. That's why they're subsidized. You know, universities are approaching the same circumstance we have in health care. What it costs is not related at all to market forces. Meaning what it costs is not related to what people can afford. You get right down to it, how many Americans, how many families can afford 20,000, 30,000, $50,000 a year or semester to send their kids off to college? It has to be subsidized.

Rush Limbaugh

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

Roy Rogers

I always feel a responsibility to the kids, to be somebody they could look up to.

Tiesto

Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.

Thomas McDonell

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

Virginia Foxx

The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.

Vinny Guadagnino

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

Wayne Coyne

Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.

Wayne Gretzky

My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!

Wayne Gretzky

I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

Wayne Gretzky

I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.