Lee Haney Quotes
I was only 24 years old when I won my first Olympia. To be that young and the world champion was a lot of pressure. When I won the 8th one, I had the record. I was on top: that was the absolute best that I ever looked onstage, the best training and prep that I had done, and I had no regrets. I knew it was time to walk away.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
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As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
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I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
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I hate auditions.
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To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.
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I was only 24 years old when I won my first Olympia. To be that young and the world champion was a lot of pressure. When I won the 8th one, I had the record. I was on top: that was the absolute best that I ever looked onstage, the best training and prep that I had done, and I had no regrets. I knew it was time to walk away.
