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.

Stephen Rea

My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do.

Jo Brand

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

John C. Reilly

I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.

John C. Reilly

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

John C. Reilly

I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'

The kids wrestled aggressively tonight. They went out and got the pins.

The kids wouldn't have let us live it down. They're psyched.

The kids who were on the management team have stepped up.

The kids who were laughing before the race probably weren't afterwards.

The kids we work with are a handful. They range from having Down Syndrome to epilepsy. There's a range of problems we try to work with here.

The kids were well-motivated, enthusiastic. You can tell that they'd done their studying.

Sachin Tendulkar

The kids were very happy, they woke me up and took me to their room which they had decorated. It looked like they had done a lot of special planning and they were enjoying. It was a pleasant surprise for me.

Phil Robertson

Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.

Peter Som

The one place you don't want to wear shorts is any major awards show. You can wear them to the Teen Choice or Kids' Choice awards, but not the Oscars or the Emmys.

Peter Hambleton

When two kids came along, I couldnt see how I could support them. The way it played out, I was away from the theatre for five years. I was a postie for the first part and then worked as an advertising copywriter, but I somehow found my way back.

Quvenzhane Wallis

It's not good to assume what your kid wants. It's not good to push them in their own way. It's not good to make them do something you wanted to do but didn't have the chance to. You should listen to what your kids are saying, and let them live, and let them be themselves.

R. A. Salvatore

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

Quincy Jones

I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.

Quincy Jones

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because its not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

Prince Andrew

I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.