"I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt. I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm still heavyweight champion of the world."

-- James Toney

#Motivation Quotes #Champion Quotes #Heavyweights Quotes

“The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.”

Source : "Rex Stout: 'No Man My Age Writes Books'" by John F. Bake, Publishers Weekly Magazine, pp. 28 - 29, October 29, 1973.
“We need to have lectures about why we can't have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and Coke.”

Source : "Paolo Di Canio ridiculed as 'managerial charlatan' by Martin O'Neill" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2013.
“I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.”
“You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.”
“I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.”
“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2011). “The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel”, p.43, Hachette UK
“The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or Black men - I don't really even like that term, "African American," because we're Black people.”
“We will never have total control over this extraordinary dimension. Time will warp and confuse and baffle and entertain however much we learn about its capacities. But the more we learn, the more we can shape it to our will and destiny. We can slow it down or speed it up. We can hold on to the past more securely and predict the future more accurately. Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.”

Source : Claudia Hammond (2012). “Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception”, p.161, Canongate Books

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