R.K. King Quotes
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.
Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.
I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.
My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.
That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'
I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.
The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.
People come in and out of our lives, and each of them helps form who we are and who we are to become.
Many people say they got into their career by accident. The other side of that is that your career is an accident waiting to happen.
Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.
And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.
I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.
There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.
Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
I am so happy to be at Barclays Center. When I saw Brett Yormark, I thought to myself that he and his brother Michael are doing an amazing job.
You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.
I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.
