In MMA it's a lot less intimidating because it's not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months... With the Olympics, you don't always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved. Ronda Rousey
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. Christian Nestell Bovee
In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling. Kevin Nash
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. James MacGregor Burns
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time. Kate Morton
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know. Peter Ackroyd
In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.James Blake
In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.Venus Williams
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. Jared Diamond
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene
Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard. Jim Thome
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. Eudora Welty
It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am. Drew Brees