Diego Corrales Quotes

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

Diego Corrales

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• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
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• We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
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• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'

  

  Young Thug
  • School
  • Small
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• I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Look
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• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
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• I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • House
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• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
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• Fage does not make great yogurt.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Great
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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Mind
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• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Great
  • Daily
  • Push

• I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Remember
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• The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Strong
  • Best
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• I have no great message to the world.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Great
  • Message

• I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Business
  • Dad
  • Just

• I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
  • Proud
  • Travel

• I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Before

• Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.

  

  Aileen Quinn
  • Great

• I like that, in the mornings, I can wake up, take my dog, and go grab coffee and a bagel, then bring back a box to my wife. I like that. I don't want anything else or need anything. I have a great wife and a great life.

  

  Armie Hammer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Long
  • Forever
  • Garden

• I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • Day
  • Morning

• When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Association

• My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

  

  Diego Corrales
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Boxing