R- THE DON Quotes

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

I studied a lot of Foghorn Leghorn.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

I throw the ball as hard as ever, but it just takes longer to get to the plate.

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

I’m a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

The greatest gift on this planet is to love and be loved.

I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

Process can not be inferred from product any more than a pig can be inferred from a sausage.

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

Jimmy Snuka stood up, 25 feet in the air, drove his knee through my ribs, but did I allow them to carry me out on a strecher? NO! I got right up and walked out!

The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.

Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

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.

We can always do it better.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures.

When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

The less important you are in an office, the more they expect the happy smile.

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.

The team is an extension of the coach.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.

Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.

Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.