Georges Laraque Quotes

#1. To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

Rob Ray

#2. I haven't played a single game all year. This is bullshit!

Georges Laraque

#3. Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud?

Maira Kalman

#4. I remember my first year, I hit him with three good punches and couldn't believe he was still standing. He hit me with one and cracked my helmet. My head hurt for a week.

Georges Laraque

#5. Quiet that self-sabotaging inner voice that lays blame anywhere besides at the altar of your feet. We are responsible for the quality of our lives.

Toni Sorenson

#6. Everything I do I get criticized, but I don't care because that's the stuff I believe in and put my heart in to.

Georges Laraque

#7. That's the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.

Lisa Wingate

#8. My first fight in Hamilton was against Rocky Thompson. Everybody was saying, 'Be careful, he can punch with both hands.' I'm saying, 'Look how skinny he is.' I was cocky. But he beat me. After that fight I said to myself, man, this is going to be a tough job.

Georges Laraque

#9. Whatever hath been written shall remain,
Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10. After I saw how badly animals were treated to en up in our plates, how bad it was for our health and for the environment, I decided to stop this nonsense and educate others. After all, animals can't talk and they need people that have notoriety like me to be their voices.

Georges Laraque

#11. The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.

Martin Amis