"Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages."

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Bob Arum

#Funny Quotes #Retirement Quotes #Long Quotes

“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 02, 2010
“[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.”
“If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.”
“...when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table...Then I asked her what had happened. 'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man...I started thinking about...if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me.' 'I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.”
“Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.”
“Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1988). “The Prodigal Women”, Plume
“Sometimes you just have to chop a zombie like a melon. What can I say?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

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