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. I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

Vince Flynn

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#5. 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

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#7. 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

#8. If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Henry Taylor

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

Salman Khurshid

#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. Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

Marisha Pessl

#15. 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

#16. If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore.

Peter Russell

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#18. We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.

Rafik Hariri

#19. The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.

John Dee

#21. Extreme poverty would be hard to bear, but a miserable person is miserable however rich. A good character is our most important possession, rich or poor.

Alan Ryan

#22. 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

#23. I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful."
"There's a literature about this?"
"You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.

Ben Aaronovitch

#24. We all become caricatures of ourselves, if we live long enough

Noah Hawley

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#26. If you are not involved in the process of production you don't have the right to eat.

Sunday Adelaja

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

Oscar De La Hoya

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#29. 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

#30. The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don't really know what you're going to get.

Laini Taylor

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Oscar De La Hoya

#35. The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.

Pope Paul VI

#36. I have always enjoyed being a part of his life. I've always loved him, and he's always loved me.

June Carter Cash

#37. 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

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

Oscar De La Hoya