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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Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
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Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
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Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
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I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.
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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.
