Diego Corrales quotes

“I played a lot of the original Fight Night. I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.”
-- Diego Corrales

#Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Night Quotes

“I actually have the Arcade PC at home, and it has 5,500 games on it. Everything from the old school, Galaga, Tron, Missile Command, anything you can think of, theyre all on there. I love the old school games.”
-- Diego Corrales

#School Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.”
-- Diego Corrales

#Kids Quotes #People Quotes #Matter Quotes

“My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.”
-- Diego Corrales

#Dad Quotes #Boxing Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.”
-- Diego Corrales

#Block Quotes #Games Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.”

“For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.”

Source : A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.108, Penguin Books India

“Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from May 22, 2013

“I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.”

“You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Don’t go getting shy on me now. ‘Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.”