Al Davis Quotes

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.

If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

Old age is no place for sissies.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.

There isa stigma associated with incontinence, so many people never mention it to their doctors or seek treatment. In reality, fecal incontinence is a very common and often very treatable condition.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

You can't be hesitant about who you are.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with.

For me, music and life are all about style.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard

You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'

You don't adjust. You just dominate.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.

Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.

One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.