Roy Jones Jr. Quotes
I can get a title shot any time I want to. They know I can beat 110% of the champions out there right now. I just have to be motivated. Most of them are going to be trying to not give me a shot.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.
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If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do-even using so-called good human relations techniques-will be perceived as manipulative.
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The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.
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I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.
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I’m sorry that your journey into my life was such that you had to endure so much suffering. But if that is the road God had you travel in order for our paths to cross, then we have no choice but to accept the purpose it has served and be grateful for it.
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I can get a title shot any time I want to. They know I can beat 110% of the champions out there right now. I just have to be motivated. Most of them are going to be trying to not give me a shot.
