You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about.


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I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchs...
DEREK BLASBERG
Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just ...
DEREK LANDY
When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments....
DEREK CIANFRANCE
Stephanie could see the greed seep into the watery eyes of her
father’s other brother, a horr...
DEREK LANDY
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of...
DEREK JARMAN
I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.
DEREK LANDY
You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.
DEREK LANDY
mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves."
"Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?"
DEREK LANDY
Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hun...
DEREK LANDY
At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of ...
DEREK WALL
I read; I travel; I become
DEREK WALCOTT
Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed.
"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY
I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly lit...
DEREK LANDY
Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.
DEREK LANDY
All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your se...
DEREK JARMAN
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to h...
DEREK JARMAN
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the ...
DEREK WALCOTT
How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requ...
DEREK WALL
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
DEREK JARMAN
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its ...
DEREK WALCOTT
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
DEREK WALCOTT
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surf...
DEREK JARMAN
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
DEREK BOK
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
DEREK WALCOTT
The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malprac...
DEREK JARMAN
One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flower...
DEREK JARMAN
Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understan...
DEREK JARMAN
An orgasm joins you to the past. Its timelessness becomes the brotherhood; the brethren are lovers; ...
DEREK JARMAN
Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
BO DEREK
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average
DEREK WALCOTT
The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about
DEREK BOK
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Har...
DEREK BOK
I believe that Harvard can have, and must have, a strong affirmative action program that reflects ou...
DEREK BOK
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important cours...
DEREK BOK
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge ...
DEREK BOK
I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medica...
DEREK THELER
These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ...
DEREK JARMAN
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
BO DEREK
The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sou...
DEREK WALCOTT
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what comm...
DEREK BOK
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is ...
DEREK WALCOTT
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
DEREK WALCOTT
A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
DEREK WALCOTT
We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
DEREK WALCOTT
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins t...
DEREK WALCOTT
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average...
DEREK WALCOTT
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...
DEREK WALCOTT
I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music,...
DEREK HOUGH