James J. Corbett Quotes

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

James J. Corbett

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Today
  • Fighting

• When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Always
  • Try

• The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Science
  • California
  • Engineering

• I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Life
  • You
  • Jeans

• Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Never

• I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• I focus on projects I am passionate about and only work with people I respect. Without these supportive teams, partners and clients, I could never work on so many things. I am fortunate that they see the value in the multiplicity of my work and how it all comes together in a kind of virtuous cycle.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Me
  • Greatest

• I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Home

• When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Learn
  • Organization

• You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Strange

• I think I've evolved into someone pretty confident - in myself and in my skin.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• Spain's parties must steel themselves to do the sensible thing and treat the Catalonia issue with the seriousness it deserves.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Treat
  • Steel
  • Seriousness

• In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  

  Maimonides
  • Study
  • Logic
  • Perfection

• I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Why
  • Wish
  • Day

• Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Years
  • Succeed
  • Forty

• You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Desire

• Why, one person in the world, one single person belonging to one, of one's very own, to talk to, to take care of, to love, to be interested in, was worth more than all the speeches on platforms and the compliments of chairmen in the world. It was also worth more—Rose couldn't help it, the thought would come—than all the prayers.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Love
  • Interested
  • Prayers

• And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• Music is so intimate and so personal that when you can find somebody that feels the same way about it that you do, it's magic. It can be. It really can be.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Music
  • Magic

• I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

  

  James J. Corbett