Alexis Arguello Quotes

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

Alexis Arguello

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• For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Good
  • Different
  • Children

• Follow the yellow brick road.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Road
  • Follow
  • Yellow

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Attention

• I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Team
  • Record
  • Earn

• There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Kindness

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Happy

• Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Confidence
  • You Can Do It

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Funny

• As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Confidence

• Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Better
  • More
  • Obvious

• The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Engineering
  • Price
  • Too Much

• Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Family
  • Planning
  • Budget

• Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Words
  • Marriage
  • Twitter

• A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge - meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck from their own poor judgment of character.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Character
  • High
  • Risk

• Compare the saint who, asked what he would do if he had only an hour to live, replied that he would go on with his game of chess, since it was as much worship as anything else he had ever done.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Live
  • Done
  • Game

• Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

  

  Al Leiter
  • Work
  • Cat

• When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.

  

  George Akerlof
  • Exercise
  • Stock

• It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Live
  • Trying

• I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • motivation
  • Boxing
  • Dedication