Djimon Hounsou Quotes
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
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I always put my boxing first.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.
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As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.
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I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I was interested in, while boxing was just hitting somebody or getting hit, which didn't appeal to me. But a demonstration of strength was okay, so I chose wrestling.
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For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.
