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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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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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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I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.
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A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
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One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
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We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
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Clearly, the oil spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their families are suffering, and it's also an economic tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a different type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.
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Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.
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I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
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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.
