Ray Quotes

If a person does this for just a couple of years and discovers that it just isn't for him, that's okay. At least he can move on knowing that he gave it his best shot.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

Talent will come out.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

I didn't study acting.

I have worked with some very great directors.

I don't see all the movies that come out.

If I have one regret in my career, it is that I did not join Rangers a lot sooner.

My daughter's tricycle said "Some Assembly Required." It came in a jar.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices.

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.

With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.

How can you get tired of playing golf?

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.

Jesus must have been married to have been called a rabbi.

To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

I am a life, that was changed.

I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.

Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.

We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.

If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.