Oscar De La Hoya Quotes

I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

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• I've never been a partier.

  

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• There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

  

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• I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

  

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• I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

  

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

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• I am healthy and happy.

  

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• To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.

  

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• I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

  

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• By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

  

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• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

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• But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

  

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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

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• I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.

  

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• It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

  

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• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

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• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

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• Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

  

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• I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

  

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• I'm very competitive, and I want to win.

  

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• I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Life
  • Crazy
  • Body