Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nita Ambani

At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.

Mitch Albom

I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.

Mitch Albom

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.

Mitch Albom

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

Mike Tyson

To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.

Mike Tyson

I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

Mike Tyson

Fade into Bolivian, I guess.

Mike Tyson

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

Mike Tyson

It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Mike Tyson

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

Mike Tyson

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

Mike Tyson

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

Mike Tyson

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

Mike Tyson

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

Mike Tyson

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

Mike Tyson

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

Mike Tyson

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

Mike Tyson

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

Mike Tyson

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

Mike Tyson

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Mike Tyson

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

Mike Tyson

For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.

Mike Tyson

Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.

Mike Tyson

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.

Mike Tyson

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

Mike Tyson

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

Mike Tyson

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

Mike Tyson

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

Mike Tyson

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

Mike Tyson

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Mike Tyson

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

Mike Tyson

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

Mike Tyson

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.