George Michael Ward Jr. (Micky Ward) Quotes

I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.

George Michael Ward Jr.

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• I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.

  

  Washed Out
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Try

• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Water

• Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • School
  • Child

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Business
  • Leadership
  • Search

• I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Proud

• When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Love
  • Care
  • Child

• Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Play
  • Pain

• War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Exercise
  • Matter

• Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Work
  • Son
  • Tools

• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • War
  • Faith

• It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Me
  • Difference
  • Bridges

• We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Time
  • Future
  • Culture

• Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Work
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

  

  Don Nickles
  • Great
  • Future
  • Political

• I have always been a huge fan of reggae music. I remember going to see Bob Marley And The Wailers at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was 13. I went with my big sister, Cordelia, and it remains the most wonderful concert I've ever been to.

  

  Amanda Donohoe
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Sister

• Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody, I have some money 'cause I just got paid. How I wish I had someone to talk to, I'm in an awful way.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Money
  • Night
  • Wish

• Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Why
  • Light
  • Poetry

• I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

  

  Danny Pudi
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I never lost a fight because I wasn't in shape or because I wasn't ready. I lost because I was either beaten by a man better than me, or it wasn't my night.

  

  George Michael Ward Jr.
  • Night
  • Better
  • Shapes