Top 1089 Roy Jones Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I've never really seen myself as one of the premier guys. I work hard and strive to be one of the best at my position, but never do I tell myself, "I'm one of the best guys." I'm just excited that Vita Coco invited me to be a part of their team with guys like Lynch and Jones. Any time you can be mentioned with guys like Jones and Lynch it's an honor.

One thing I've learned is that Brandon Roy is an unbelievable player.

What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.

Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.

Got any excuses tonight Roy?

I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

George Jones is country soul. Once this kind of music sits in you and you take it all, it reaches down into your soul. George Jones to me was one of the most soulful singers of any genre. That drew me to his music. He knew how to present a song without really thinking about it.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

I never thought I'd be up against Salvador Dali and Roy Disney.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.

Arundhati Roy has been called many things, including a terrorist.

Harrison Ford is a great actor and he's and lovely man and a great father and all of these things, I got to just meet him as a person and someone I respect as an actor.I'd never seen any 'Indiana Jones' movies or 'Star Wars' movies. My husband made me watch the Indiana Jones trilogy, I just was like fanboy Comic-Con geeked out. It was amazing I didn't show up to set with a whip and a hat.

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

In India, I'm always 'Aruna Roy's husband.'

But I think the upside is hopefully people are slightly scared of Roy Kent.

Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.

I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.

Roy Hodgson is a very good manager with a clear plan.

Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.

Keith's [Briffa] series...differs in large part in exactly the opposite direction that Phil's [Jones] does from ours. This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably consensus viewpoint we'd like to show w/ the Jones et al and Mann et al series).

Jon has always been able to start off at a certain pace but then pick it up throughout the fight and then, at the end of the fight, his opponents are like, 'Damn, this guy is at another level.' I think that's what makes Jon Jones, Jon Jones.

The first album I bought, I didn't even buy it. My grandma got Mike Jones and Bow Wow's 'Wanted' a little later. Matter of fact Ying Yang Twins' 'U.S.A. Still United' was the first album, but Mike Jones was the first album I really love.

I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies, and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.

I was shooting for 'Bin Roy' and 'Ho Mann Jahaan' simultaneously.

Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.

My childhood hero was Roy Rogers.

Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.

Patrick Roy was my idol when I was growing up.

My mother met my father at a Roy Acuff concert.

Bimal Roy never kept comedy out of the story line.

Gracie: "Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington-they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton: "Nina Jones?" Gracie: "I've never heard of her either, because she gave up."

The first concert I ever saw was Roy Orbison.

Roy Williams has been a great coach every game since the beginning at Kansas.

I am singing for Ranbir Kapoor in 'Roy' and Emraan Hashmi in 'X Men.'

'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'

Russ Courtnall was my absolute favorite player. Patrick Roy was there, too, of course.

I have a lot of time and respect for Roy Hodgson; he's a very good manager.

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, John Wayne - these men had the code of the West.

Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.’s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockers’ multiple-guitar attack, with distortion and feedback, gives the music teeth.

Pay-Per-View is run by drama. It is. It's true. I've done the research for myself. You look at Jon Jones. When Jon Jones fought Machida, probably did about $200,000, $300,000. When he fought Cormier, they made, like, $875,000.

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

In many ways Roy Keane is bigger than One Direction.

Well I still have my Patrick Roy jersey from when I was a kid, so he'll always be my favorite.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

Roy Moore is a man of faith.

And though I was not a Man United fan, and I'm still not, I just was fascinated by Roy Keane.

I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.

The SDP's founder, Roy Jenkins, was my hero and later mentor.

I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course.

When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.

I never had an imaginary friend, just imaginary circumstances. I was so into the Indiana Jones movies and I would constantly reenact circumstances. I broke my left arm three times, two of which were me trying to be Indiana Jones.

Roy Moore was an embarrassment.

When I was growing up, there was no one. There were very few black women in tech; there were very few black women in the fashion game. We didn't have our Grace Jones - Grace Jones was before my time. We didn't really have a lot of black women in electronic and punk who were celebrated in the same levels as, say, your big mega-superstars.

Mike Jones, Ying Yang Twins, then a little later, Wiz Khalifa and Meek Mill, too. It was the repetitive stuff with Mike Jones when he would give out his number, and I also like his style. Back then, actually, I still think du-rags, grillz, and stuff like that are cool.

Roy Race was a comic book hero, and Steven Gerrard is a real-life one.