Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Johnson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Jack Johnson.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Jack Johnson

John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). Widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers of all time, his 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African-American on Earth". Transcending boxing, he became part of the culture and history of racism in the United States.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
It's as simple as something that nobody knows. — © Jack Johnson
It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
I can change the world with my own two hands
Home is wherever we are if there's love here too
I want to turn the whole thing upside down I'll find the things they say just can't be found I'll share the love I find with everyone We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song I don't want this feeling to go away.
We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time. — © Jack Johnson
We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.
Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart.
We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.
When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing. You go with the flow. You don't stop.
But you're so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine
We get to go out into the schools and work with the kids on connecting them to their food at a young age, to actually see where their food is coming from, to see that their food is coming from the earth and not just from a supermarket. Once they make that connection, they can start to build upon that.
Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.
You and your heart shouldn't feel so far apart
If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.
Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.
When I vote for a candidate I always try to learn as much as I can about them, but I guess I focus a lot on environmental issues, and I tend to vote along those lines.
I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.
Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.
We're all related. We're all a family.
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations
Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone
The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.
Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard
When you move like a jellyfish rhyth don't mean nothing. You go with the flow, you don't stop. Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don't stop.
People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.
Sometimes, the simple messages are the best thing music can do, really. Sometimes, songs can stir people up, motivate them to make change.
Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon.
Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.
Getting lost is not a waste of time.
Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot this world keeps spinning. And with each new day, I can feel a change in everything.
You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world. — © Jack Johnson
You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.
It's always better when we're together, somewhere in between together.
Every time I get a chance to be out in the ocean, it's like hitting a reset button for me where I just feel alive again, in perfect balance. Music can give me that, as well, but not as easily. The ocean is the way I know how to find it almost daily.
There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven.
What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.
I finish a lot of lyrics while I'm in the water and it's always pretty constructive for me to get out in the water. I'm not actually writing the words down, but I have time to think about words, and doing a lot of surfing usually gives me a little space and peace of mind to finish things up.
What about your mind, does it shine?
The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.
love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight
you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart
Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take. — © Jack Johnson
Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.
I eat cold eels and think distant thoughts.
The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.
A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.
It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.
The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.
Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in my heart, like Why are we here? And where do we go? And how come it's so hard? It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving, I'll tell you one thing, it's so much better when we're together.
Pretend like it's the weekend, ... We could pretend it all the time.
I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.
An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.
Dreams are like commercials, but her dreams are picture perfect.
Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take. When you find the things that you love the most and you want to give those away, that's love. It's when you want somebody to be happier than yourself, but then once you make them happy, it makes you happier.
Fact is only what you believe and fact and fiction work as a team.
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