Ray Quotes

If you arent focused on success, youre failing.

Something worth doing is something worth putting your heart into.

There can be no truer faith than the one you might have in yourself.

be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be

Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts.

He's got a great right foot, and if he can get his head around that he'll be a great player.

Follow your heart and your mind will create.

The greatest compliment I can pay Paul Scholes is that he reminds me of Bryan Robson, the way he bombs into the box.

West Ham have committed 13 fouls, but they weren't fouls, they were commitment

Signori has all the tricks up his book.

At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

What really shocks me, what I can honestly sit back and ponder for hours in a lot of cases is just, 'Why would you film yourself doing that? Who put you up to that? What are you getting out of that?

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

I'm away so much I've had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.

I pile on the weight when I work. All that location catering's not good for the love handles. I lose a bit when I'm not working, but I love my food and the occasional snifter.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven't changed.

I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

I'm not the sort of bloke who spends a long time in the bathroom. I've never used a face cream in my life and I don't like it when I go on TV and they offer me make-up. I tell 'em, 'No thanks.'

I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man.

I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.

The power of the documentary film, when done well, I think is usually more impacting than a narrative, at least for me. Documentaries are also cheaper, they are more accessible to make.

Consciousness is the ground of all being; everything is consciousness. Beyond that, definition is impossible because any way we may attempt to define it would limit consciousness.

Fundamentalism, in and of itself, is benign and can be personally beneficial, but the anger and prejudice generated by extreme beliefs can permanently damage your brain.

The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.

The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered it an individual right.

A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms.

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.

You just don't heal that easy unless you're young.

Tommy Hearns seemed like an indestructible machine, so to beat him, I think that was my defining moment, the pinnacle.

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

Look at football, where you still have injuries no matter how much they improve the helmets and other equipment.

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself

I had a drug problem. I'd go to parties, take a leak, and there was cocaine right there. I was 25 when it started, rich, famous, and retired.

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran

To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

I have someone. He's 25. It's nothing serious.

Whatever age you think I am, you’re probably right.