"Most people would think that I don't like Floyd Mayweather, but I like Floyd. He understood on how to keep winning, I don't care what anyone says, he kept the passion in his boxing and in his training to win. A lot of people lose that. They get the money and they don't want to train and Mayweather trained the same as when he had no money and persisted to win."

“Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.”

Source : "Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Gets 3 Months in Prison: A Rare Interview". Interview with Ashley Codianni, mashable.com. May 19, 2014.

“I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.”

Source : "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

“I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.”

“When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.”

“Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.......”

Source : Nicola Barker (2012). “The Yips: A Novel”, p.115, Open Road Media

“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.”

Source : "Philip Gould, the best listener in politics" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2011.

“Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of”