Lampley Jim Quotes

#1. She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.

Jim Lampley

#2. We see the world and our words in one impression, as if we're looking at a forest through a green filter. We can't see what's really green and what's not. If we were to walk around with the filter in our eye long enough, we'd forget it was there, and life would just be green.

Dave Logan

#3. Don't ever lose sight of who you are and your own power.

Sheila Johnson

#4. I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.

Jim Lampley

#5. If he's chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he's chasing something that he really can't get.

Jim Lampley

#6. The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.

Jim Lampley

#7. When I said I loved you, I didn't mean for a week, or maybe a year, I meant always, in the good times and the bad, through thick and thin. I'm playing for keeps here, Mags.

Sherry Gammon

#8. You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

Jim Lampley

#9. I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#10. I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious ... knocked out cold before ... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

Jim Lampley

#11. We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

Jim Lampley

#12. I met Roy's father once ... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.

Jim Lampley

#13. I can hold you up with one hand, but you can balance me on your fingertips.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

Jim Lampley

#15. I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

Jim Lampley

#16. I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

Jim Lampley

#17. [Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

Stewart Brand

#18. Klaus watched his sister leave the library and felt a wave of hopelessness wash over him.

Lemony Snicket

#19. It is a blessed thing to be teachable as a little child, but it is a much more blessed thing when one has been taught the lesson, to carry it out to the letter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.

Jim Lampley

#21. I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

Jim Lampley

#22. There are two kinds of people in boxing. Those who say, 'Oh, boy; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me,' and those who say, 'Big problem; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me.'

Jim Lampley