Andre Ward quote: "I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff, because you don't have to do that. You don't have to act like that, and you don't have to live like that in order to be successful."

More time than not, athletes, specifically fighters, have a 15 or 20-year career, and unfortunately,...
ANDRE WARD

When I hit him, I knew it was over, ... It's a concussive type of punch. Because he's a lefty, he wa...
ANDRE WARD

I am very comfortable fighting southpaw, ... both my right and left hands are powerful. My ability t...
ANDRE WARD

It was either Connecticut or San Jose, so you know what I chose. I have great fans here.
ANDRE WARD

When your are in the ring, ... it is mental. You may get hit with a good shot or you may hit him wit...
ANDRE WARD

As soon as that bell rings for the first round, ... you have to establish whose ring it is. That's r...
ANDRE WARD

I never want to despise small beginnings. I?m grateful for where we?re at right now.
ANDRE WARD

You can learn a lot from the Olympics, but you have to learn the sport again when you turn pro. Just...
ANDRE WARD

This is going to be a great and exciting event, not only for boxing fans, but for me personally, bec...
ANDRE WARD

I think my jab has a lot to do with having a throwback trainer in Virgil,
ANDRE WARD

The guy was heavy handed. This was my first left-hander (I've faced) as a professional. I need to fa...
ANDRE WARD

I still don't think the world has seen the best Andre Ward. Initially, I just wanted to get in t...
ANDRE WARD

The British fans, they are very festive; they support their people.
ANDRE WARD

I didn't need to get knocked down to know the fortitude that I have in me.
ANDRE WARD

The game plan might be different based on the opponent, but the approach is the same.
ANDRE WARD

Once a fighter becomes enamoured with another, to the point where they can't perform and compete...
ANDRE WARD

Dad couldn't train me. He was too high-strung, like, 'Throw your jab!' and I'd start...
ANDRE WARD

My mind-set is my major attribute.
ANDRE WARD

I'm just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when...
ANDRE WARD

Every time a fighter comes out to fight me, this is almost a world-title fight. This may be the clos...
ANDRE WARD

I want to be the light heavyweight champion of the world.
ANDRE WARD

You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.
ANDRE WARD

I do feel at times like I'm always proving myself. But I also feel that I'm proven. I've...
ANDRE WARD

I went to a nutritionist; my diet is pretty clean, but I wanted to get some more knowledge and under...
ANDRE WARD

My personal goals are to fight and beat the best opponent possible.
ANDRE WARD

There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his r...
ANDRE WARD

Manny Pacquiao has a whole country behind him. His journey and his rise, from a career standpoint, h...
ANDRE WARD

I don't come from a position that I am better than everybody; I come from a position that I had ...
ANDRE WARD

My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost q...
ANDRE WARD

I spar in the gym, and I take pride in my sparring. But I'm a better fighter when the lights com...
ANDRE WARD

You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.
ANDRE WARD

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
ANDRE KERTESZ

I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
ANDRE GIDE

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitn...
ANDRE MAUROIS

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Business is a combination of war and sport.
ANDRE MAUROIS

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
ANDRE MAUROIS

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you crea...
ANDRE MAUROIS

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished...
ANDRE MAUROIS

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions...
ANDRE MAUROIS

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
ANDRE MAUROIS

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin...
ANDRE MAUROIS

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her ...
ANDRE MAUROIS

I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.
ANDRE RIEU

People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getti...
ANDRE PREVIN

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
ANDRE AGASSI

First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life ...
JOHN ANDRE

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted
ANDRE MALRAUX

An art book is a museum without walls.
ANDRE MALRAUX

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets
ANDRE MALRAUX

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten
ANDRE MALRAUX

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion o...
ANDRE MALRAUX

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
ANDRE MALRAUX

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id...
ANDRE MALRAUX

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the...
ANDRE MAUROIS

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world
ANDRE MAUROIS

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and comple...
ANDRE MAUROIS

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discip...
ANDRE MAUROIS

In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same to...
ANDRE AGASSI

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
ANDRE MAUROIS

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and se...
ANDRE GIDE

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the w...
ANDRE RIEU

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
ANDRE MAUROIS

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
ANDRE MAUROIS

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner confl...
ANDRE MAUROIS

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but wit...
ANDRE MALRAUX

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it a...
ANDRE SINYAVSKY

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general env...
CARL ANDRE

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around yo...
CARL ANDRE

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
CARL ANDRE

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist...
CARL ANDRE

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for ...
CARL ANDRE

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
CARL ANDRE

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
CARL ANDRE

I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple...
BELLA ANDRE

It's an incredible serve. It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. Y...
ANDRE AGASSI

During all the years with Pete [Sampras], everybody would talk about the finals. I think Pete and I ...
ANDRE AGASSI

It's an incredible serve, ... The trajectory is the main issue because you're lunging but then it's ...
ANDRE AGASSI

I feel like I've experienced every part of my game throughout this first week and I've liked the lev...
ANDRE AGASSI

But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was all ...
ANDRE AGASSI

It's an incredible serve. A lot of guys can serve it 135-plus. The trajectory is the main issue. You...
ANDRE AGASSI

It's not a function of how fast it is because a lot of guys can serve it 135-plus. The trajectory is...
ANDRE AGASSI

It's an incredible serve, ... It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issu...
ANDRE AGASSI

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust ther...
ANDRE NORTON

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through...
ANDRE GIDE

Before I explain my book to others, I expect them to explain it to me. To claim to explain it first ...
ANDRE GIDE

All these books have lived together ... inside my mind. They follow one another only on paper and be...
ANDRE GIDE

What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of explorati...
ANDRE DUBUS

I think what I love most about writing is that feeling that you really nailed something. I rarely fe...
ANDRE DUBUS

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined ...
ANDRE GIDE

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDE

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and ...
ANDRE BRETON

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
ANDRE MAUROIS

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you...
ANDRE GIDE

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We...
ANDRE MAUROIS

February 13, 1951. No! I cannot claim that with the end of this notebook, of the notebook, al...
ANDRE GIDE

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
ANDRE BRETON

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s...
ANDRE BRETON

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing...
ANDRE BRETON

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
ANDRE BRETON

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
ANDRE MAUROIS

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le...
ANDRE GIDE

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
ANDRE MAUROIS

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- be...
ANDRE GIDE

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gard...
ANDRE GIDE

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it...
ANDRE GIDE

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
ANDRE GIDE

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me...
ANDRE BRETON

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...
ANDRE MAUROIS

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from th...
ANDRE GIDE

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ...
ANDRE GIDE

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
ANDRE GODIN

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
ANDRE MALRAUX

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wag...
ANDRE BRETON

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
ANDRE MALRAUX

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly imp...
ANDRE DUBUS

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself i...
ANDRE BRETON

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the ...
ANDRE BRETON

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There ...
ANDRE BRETON

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying th...
ANDRE BRETON

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
ANDRE MAUROIS

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I ...
ANDRE BRETON

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
ANDRE GIDE

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and le...
ANDRE BRETON

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
ANDRE BRETON

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attem...
ANDRE BRETON

Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leav...
ANDRE BRETON

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional se...
ANDRE BRETON

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the ...
ANDRE DUBUS

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of thing...
ANDRE BRETON

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
ANDRE BRETON

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. The...
ANDRE MALRAUX

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the ...
ANDRE BRETON

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what ...
ANDRE BRETON

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
FATHER ANDRE

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on co...
ANDRE GIDE

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
ANDRE MALRAUX

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
ANDRE GIDE

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except w...
ANDRE AGASSI

It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a...
ANDRE AGASSI

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
ANDRE MAUROIS

If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi
ANDRE MAUROIS

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDE

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDE

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone
ANDRE GIDE

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDE

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity
ANDRE GIDE

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDE

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
ANDRE GIDE

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct the...
ANDRE GIDE

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRE GIDE

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
ANDRE GIDE

There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession
ANDRE GIDE

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do ...
ANDRE GIDE

Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever ...
ANDRE GIDE

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning a...
ANDRE GIDE

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuri...
ANDRE MALRAUX

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
ANDRE MAUROIS

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion ...
ANDRE MAUROIS

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
ANDRE MALRAUX

Style Is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id...
ANDRE MALRAUX

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
ANDRE AGASSI

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at t...
ANDRE MAUROIS

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'p...
ANDRE MALRAUX

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
ANDRE MAUROIS

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDE

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le...
ANDRE GIDE

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to ...
ANDRE BENJAMIN

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.
ANDRE BALAZS

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
ANDRE GIDE

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
ANDRE MAUROIS

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or...
ERIC ANDRE

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
ANDRE MAUROIS

It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.
PETER ANDRE

I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff, because you don't have to do that. You don't have to act like that, and you don't have to live like that in order to be successful.

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Andre Ward

I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff, because you don't have to do that. You don't have to act like that, and you don't have to live like that in order to be successful.

Andre Ward

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