People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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Related There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a... PAIGE VANZANT I'm definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I wa... CHLOE SEVIGNY I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Mu... HOLLY HOLM It has become our main publication. I think there are thousands of female-owned businesses out there... MICHAEL GAFFNEY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there a... RICHARD SHERMAN Any time you have a tournament like that, scouts are going to be there. And not just scouts, but peo... JEFF LAING George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me ou... LARRY HOLMES I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people... ADAM JONES It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can'... K. FLAY I will say to all the fellas out there that, seriously, I am a setup. I'm just like rose petals.... MAXWELL The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a... OCTAVIA SPENCER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Name recognition gets less important as the race goes on. The key candidates are all going to have e... EARL DE BERGE There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out. ELVIS PRESLEY Opportunities like this can be few and far between. So you realize that you are sort of out there ca... ROD HIGGINS A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I'm not quite ready for that super part... CHRISTINE TEIGEN When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when ... ANNA QUINDLEN Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physi... CARLOS PONCE National Guard soldiers were picking dead bodies out of houses. There is only so much of that you ca... KATHLEEN JOHNSON As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about th... ETHAN SUPLEE Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well,... ELYN SAKS I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having s... LINDY BOOTH No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you ... MARY J. BLIGE I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone ... PAIGE VANZANT Clearly, there are other candidates who are going to breathe a sigh of relief that the millions of d... LEE MIRINGOFF We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as figh... ADOLF GALLAND I get a little freaked out when I'm around too many redheads. I only have about one or two red-h... JESSE PLEMONS Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one w... RIVER PHOENIX The last thing we want to do is hang a name out there that people look at cross-eyed and wonder, 'Wh... RICHARD TUCKER We're not shy about using that name to get people out to see us, but once they're there, we hook the... JEFF LABAR So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to t... RODNEY BROOKS It's a good marketing tool. You get to see our name out there. BILL HARTMANN His name is definitely out there. He'll play somewhere [after high school]. We won't have to worry a... JAMIE WOODRUFF Losing to Columbia and barely beating a few other Ivy teams is unacceptable, so we are all a little ... JASON GERKEN There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your na... MARIA SHARAPOVA I am [in your world].’ said Aslan. ‘But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by ... C.S. LEWIS What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name. DOUG MCCLURE I don't fight like Mike Tyson. I'm nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I'm out to build my o... TYSON FURY At the end of the day, you can only fight from yourself. It is only you out there on that mat - but ... KELITA ZUPANCIC I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attrac... JESSE METCALFE It's called Fort Minor instead of my name because there is a bunch of other people involved in the p... MIKE SHINODA Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that... BRIAN BEHLENDORF I'm an actor, and I keep observing people and their reactions to figure out what they are thinki... PREITY ZINTA In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitis... JOHN RIDLEY In the fight with Hunt, all I can say is it was a good night for me. I'm happy to get out of the... STIPE MIOCIC There are only a few people out there who can completely overcome their fears, and they all live in ... SUSAN CAIN I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they fee... LARRY HOLMES You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know tha... TERRY PRATCHETT There was an incident in Argentina when I was making a film called 'The Warrior and the Sorceres... DAVID CARRADINE I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life. FAYE RESNICK I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked f... AUNG SAN SUU KYI Honestly, when you look up at the scoreboard and see your name up there, it's like, 'Whoa, I only ha... MATT PROPER If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people out there toiling over your unpublished man... JOHN NIVEN Thing is, I don't really like free time. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn... MICHAEL STRAHAN There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right pl... DAVEY HAVOK My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the pri... DAVE CHAPPELLE I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out t... ADAM LAMBERT I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant... UNKNOWN I'm not going to be like a rapper and mention the people I'm talking about in my songs by na... AUSTIN CARLILE That gave me a lot of momentum. It got my name out there and motivated me to stick with it. RAY WILLETTE There's a lot of haters in Philly, but it's a lot of people that give you support - but way ... LIL UZI VERT There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only w... SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU We have so much to offer it's really just a matter of getting our name out there. HAROLD KELLY It gets our name out there and people see it more places. BRUCE CONDON You ask me for a name to pull out the hat to replace Gibbs if he gets seriously injured tomorrow. No... MICKEY ARTHUR It's true to say that I'm a budding young actor. But I'd rather get my name out there be... JOSH BOWMAN Obama's middle name differs from my last name by only two vowels. Does the McCain-Palin campaign... KHALED HOSSEINI Our cafe keeps the name recognition out there and serves as a place where clients can come in to dis... ANDREW PANTANO The steak and chicken fell out of the diet. It's like going to the grocery store and (seeing) there ... JULIA PARRISH In Israel, there is this reduction of the political discourse to something that is very limited. It&... ETGAR KERET The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Je... CARL SAGAN I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of grea... BILL BUDGE I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. ... BRUNO DUMONT I don't like getting up in front of people and being the loud one when everybody's out quiet... TRAVIS FIMMEL I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But th... KRISTEN BELL You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and ... EMANUEL STEWARD I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, y... BRIAN MCKNIGHT I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it'... CARL LEWIS It's weird to think I have fans now, so I appreciate all of the people that follow and support m... RYAN GUZMAN As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there. DAVID BERGEN Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it a... ASAP ROCKY I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find t... BROOKE SHIELDS I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainl... TARAN KILLAM Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much ... CHARLIZE THERON I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for sayin... HUGH MACKAY I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. ... BAHMAN GHOBADI I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an... TONY BENNETT When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey. DAVID EDWARDS I didn't really know what to expect, but I thought there aren't a lot of rap groups that can... PHIFE DAWG There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some wa... DAYMOND JOHN Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away. KINA GRANNIS There are people out there waiting for you. Indeed, you are the only one who can bring joy in the he... DARIUSH YOUKHANEH The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are... T. R. KNIGHT The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and t... ASHTON EATON I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astr... JIM LOVELL But most of all, I'm a part of you people out there who have listened to me, because especially ... ERNIE HARWELL I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sittin... MARILYN MONROE If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out
that there are hundreds, thous... LEO TOLSTOY I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lo... BROOKLYN DECKER
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MUHAMMAD ALI I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brin... MUHAMMAD ALI It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. MUHAMMAD ALI The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep... MUHAMMAD ALI A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have se... MUHAMMAD ALI I don't have to be what you want me to be. MUHAMMAD ALI I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have. MUHAMMAD ALI My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am. MUHAMMAD ALI Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist. MUHAMMAD ALI It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep co... MUHAMMAD ALI I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in... MUHAMMAD ALI Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. MUHAMMAD ALI Don't feel sorry for me. MUHAMMAD ALI I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow,... MUHAMMAD ALI America is the greatest country in the world. MUHAMMAD ALI Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor. MUHAMMAD ALI I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when J... MUHAMMAD ALI I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people ... MUHAMMAD ALI I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower. MUHAMMAD ALI I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better... MUHAMMAD ALI Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating... MUHAMMAD ALI I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That... MUHAMMAD ALI I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before... MUHAMMAD ALI I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on. MUHAMMAD ALI My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. MUHAMMAD ALI A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. MUHAMMAD ALI It's not bragging if you can back it up. MUHAMMAD ALI Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. MUHAMMAD ALI There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis... MAHERSHALA ALI My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was al... MAHERSHALA ALI I think Don Cheadle has always done great work. MAHERSHALA ALI People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities. MAHERSHALA ALI In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It'... MAHERSHALA ALI