Best Hoya Quotes

#1. I feel amazing, in my life right now, I have so much motivation. I am so hungry and so determined. I am young, I am healthy and I feel great ... 42 is the new 32.

Oscar De La Hoya

#2. Remember this, mes cheres: There is no person so small that the Lord cannot see her, no voice so quiet that He cannot hear it.

Jocelyn Green

#3. A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!

Bram Stoker

#4. William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

Gene Simmons

#5. My dad has never once told me after a fight that I did well.

Oscar De La Hoya

#6. I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.

Bernard Hopkins

#7. Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

Isaac D'Israeli

#8. These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

Don DeLillo

#9. I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.

Oscar De La Hoya

#10. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

Andrea Bocelli

#11. I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

Oscar De La Hoya

#12. I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture.

Alain Ducasse

#13. Ever since I've been boxing, it's always been the case that when I go inside the ring a switch goes off and my attitude changes totally from the person I am outside it. I really can't explain why or how.

Oscar De La Hoya

#14. By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.

Oscar De La Hoya

#15. You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

Oscar De La Hoya

#16. The fight life, that was easy. This is a battle I have every day.

Oscar De La Hoya

#17. As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.

Oscar De La Hoya

#18. When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will.

Oscar De La Hoya

#19. De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa.

Roberto Duran

#20. After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are certain issues that I need to work on. Like everyone, I have my flaws, and I do not want to be one of those people that is afraid to admit and address those flaws.

Oscar De La Hoya

#21. I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street-and get beat up.

Oscar De La Hoya

#22. Ever since I met [my wife], my life has been different. I have what I want. I have my Jewel in Millie.

Oscar De La Hoya

#23. I tried to do the impossible on paper
beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

Oscar De La Hoya

#24. Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.

Oscar De La Hoya

#25. Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

Oscar De La Hoya

#26. He had always enjoyed Lily Bart; and his course lay so far out of her orbit that it amused him to be drawn for a moment into the sudden intimacy which her proposal implied.

Edith Wharton

#27. I told you before, I'll fight anyone. I don't care.

Oscar De La Hoya

#28. I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.

Oscar De La Hoya

#29. I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

Christopher Eccleston

#30. Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

Oscar De La Hoya

#31. I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

Oscar De La Hoya

#32. There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Oscar De La Hoya