Marlen Esparza Quotes

#1. I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.

David Arquette

#2. That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.

Sandra Cisneros

#3. Hard work betrays none, but dreams betray many.

Myself

#4. Everything was for this moment- of silence, of bliss! I am speechless at this shrine of You and I understand that life was just a journey to find You, the deepest consciousness living in even the dead!

Preeth Nambiar

#5. I don't have to think. My only job is to show up and win.

Marlen Esparza

#6. Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. If no one thinks you can, then you have to.

Marlen Esparza

#8. I look forward to continuing to be a role model to women across the country and helping them have confidence in all they do in the ring, on the court or in the game of life!

Marlen Esparza

#9. As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.

Marlen Esparza

#10. If you really know ... what you want and how to get there, then everything else really falls into place.

Marlen Esparza

#11. If I look good then I feel good and if I feel good, then I'll fight good.

Marlen Esparza

#12. Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Joseph Brodsky

#13. I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing,

Marlen Esparza

#14. If you leave here, War can find you again. What are you going to do if that happens? (Tory)
Leave bloodstains on his best shirt. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.

Marlen Esparza

#16. I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.

Marlen Esparza

#17. I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.

Marlen Esparza

#18. I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

Marlen Esparza