Top 470 Quotes & Sayings by Ukrainian Authors - Page 4

Boxing, for me, is all about drama and victory, and there is plenty more to come.

Sport has made me realise that you have to be stubborn and to persevere to get the results. It might take longer in politics, but once you have the right goal and desire, you will reach it.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

It's not about the gold medals or the trophies or the money. It's about the people that you cherish and can share incredible moments with.

In sports, you get disqualified if you violate the rules, but in Ukrainian politics, no standards are at work.

I have the biggest weapons in my hands. I can go a full 12 rounds at high speed.

I live in Ukraine with my family. I love my country, family, friends, people. I fight for them. I fight for Ukraine.

From the fans to the hands that move the props to the producers who help me with concepts and wardrobe that helps me with I pour my heart into every single detail, so to see that reciprocated, that support meant the world to me.

I always want a challenge - always.

Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God.

I never wear suits.

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

When Ukrainians and Israelis speak to each other, each side respects the other.

I have respect for Chisora as a fighter but not as a human. He set a bad example for boxing and all fighters. He came from Great Britain, but he is not a gentleman.

I am not a big facial person. But I do love a body scrub.

I don't want to be just a regular great fighter. I want to be the best.

People ask me about Orlando Salido. My answer is that I fight for Top Rank and will take on who they schedule for me. But I would like to welcome Salido to Lomachenko University in the ring some day.

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

I moved up to 130 pounds hoping champions in this division were not cowards like those at 126 pounds. It looks like I was wrong.

Sometimes that happens. I know how it feels to lose eight or nine to nothing. It can be frustrating but it was good for us. This was a team that was hot the last nine games. It seemed like any puck we touched went our way.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Everybody makes his path differently.

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.

I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.

I feel great. I feel like I'm in my 20s. I did have a lot of injuries, yes, but I feel great now. I think the path that I had did good things to my body and also my mind. I came back very motivated.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

My election only proves that the citizens are tired of the experienced politicians who over the past 28 years created a country of opportunities - opportunities to steal, bribe and loot.

Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.

From the time I was elected to parliament, I was not voting for the government. I was sure it did not have a chance to survive. From the beginning, I was one of the organizers of the Maidan.

Chernobyl has been a negative part of Ukraine's brand. The time has come to change this.

I will box with passion and devotion.

We must become Icelanders in soccer, Israelis in defending our land, Japanese in technology.

I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now!

I rarely drink, but when I do, I prefer Tequila.

I know I will have to prove I am the best and make history in pro boxing, but I have no doubts about it, as I did in the amateurs, and I will do it as a pro.

In Soviet times, the border was closed, so we couldn't get out of the country, and I had been reading Robinson Crusoe. I wanted to see the ocean, I wanted to see boats, I wanted to see black people, because we didn't have that in the Soviet Union. I was all excited by that stuff.

I've never had a problem making featherweight. Of course, it wasn't easy, but it also was never an issue.

I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide.

I can't control what people think. I live my life and I try to live it, you know, the way I want to live it.

I would never want Ukraine to be a piece on the map, on the chessboard of big global players, so that someone could toss us around, use us as cover, as part of some bargain.

I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

People don't really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action.

I actually think Facebook made it their business to be close with all of the app developers. They couldn't have done more.

If, in 10 years, or 20 or 30 years, you sit down with your friends and talk about boxing, you need to remember my name.

If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

Politicians remain in power although they violate the rules.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.

People understand boxing in the U.K. The fans love it.

I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.