De La Hoya Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Oscar De La Hoya

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#5. 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

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?

T. S. Eliot

#10. His pale skin turned a greenish cast. A verbal kick in the nuts did that to a man.' (Carlos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Where shall I find a style to catch a stroll,
Chablis on ice, a crisply toasted roll,
The agate succulence of cherries ripe?
The sunset's far, the ocean's splashing cool
Can offer solace to a sunburned nape.

Mikhail Kuzmin

#12. 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

#13. Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned with various features of our mental life and the large-scale structure of the mind, not our concepts of mind, or consciousness, or anything else

Hilary Kornblith

#14. 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

#15. The hardest part of doing anything new is finding the courage to decide to at least try.

Bruce Van Horn

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#17. We are very ideological about fiction in this country. If a character is not familiar, then that character becomes unbelievable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#18. God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

Yolanda Adams

#19. Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

Patsy Cline

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#21. 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

#22. I respect Chris Carrabba as a songwriter and I also respect his past. He's got this fierce, straight edge, kind of hardcore core. There's so many songs that people are connected to and they all came together in a kind of DIY way, which I really do respect.

Stephan Jenkins

#23. Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

Lester Levenson

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

Oscar De La Hoya

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

Oscar De La Hoya

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#27. 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

#28. I got two stools, in case I want to sit down and sit down again on something else.

Mitch Hedberg

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

William Henry Maule

#32. 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

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#34. 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

#35. I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

Pamela Anderson

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#37. They had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

George Orwell