Ray Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.

I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a complete human being, whether the guy is good or bad.

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

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

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.

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

The rise of the Earth's temperature, causing sea level increases that could add up to one foot over the next 30 years, threatens the very existence of New Orleans.

I've met so many fans over the years and some have actually become friends of mine and I actually look forward to sharing my stories.

Southampton have always been at the top, apart from the seasons when they weren't.

I just want to thank [my wife] for loving me where I was weak.

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

Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.

I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.

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

Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

[Too many musicians are] too involved with doing and not listening.

Be careful who you share your dreams with; not everyone shares your enthusiasm.

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

Talent will come out.

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.

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

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

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 was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

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.

I take this continent with me into the grave.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.