Even when I reached the top, I never forgot where I came from. I wondered about the millions of my fellow countrymen who didn't have the chance I got and continued to languish in poverty.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
“We engage in this kind of behaviour even more enthusiastically when we're anxious about being excluded or left out.”— Harvey Whitehouse
Cognitive scientist studying ritual, religion, and social bonding mechanisms
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My hands have been known mostly for the leather gloves that I've used as an instrument to punish opposing fighters. Outside the ring, though, I want my legacy to be the man with bare hands that offered kindness and hope to those in need.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
I wasn't just fighting for myself. I was fighting for an entire country and millions of fans around the world who believe in me. That is why I will always give 100% in and out of the ring.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
There are really no defeats in life, just opportunities to become better, stronger.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
Looking back, it was one of the best things that could've happened to me. It was a rude awakening and it felt like my world was crashing in on me. It was a rough few days after the fight but instead of choosing to feel sorry for myself, I used the defeat as fuel for more determination.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
When I first laced up a pair of gloves as a 16-year old kid, it was January 2, 1995, and fame and fortune were not my primary motivation. I was fighting for the next decent meal and to provide for my family, the best way I knew how.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
100% of anything I have ever felt uncomfortable about, embarrassed about or tried to hide…. When I embraced those things and flipped the script…. I felt freer, happier and more capable.
— AJ MendezProfessional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee
A lot of people assume that I would choose not to have bipolar disorder; but I'm grateful for it. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world, because I feel like all the ups and downs have formed who I am, and made be braver, tougher… more creative and more capable.
— AJ MendezProfessional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee
We don't change the world through opinions, we change it with examples. So I've been putting myself out there, reaching out and connecting.
— AJ MendezProfessional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee
You have to show 100% genuine emotion and personality through everything you do and allow that to connect to people. You cannot keep things inside because you think people won't accept you, or will think you're strange; just let your freak flag fly.
— AJ MendezProfessional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee
Early on, being told no helped me figure out what I wanted my yes's to be. I learned who I wanted to be from people telling me who I could not be.
— AJ MendezProfessional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee
I'm a firm believer that creativity comes from restrictions, so I'm really grateful that I grew-up with so many restrictions around me. When you give someone complete freedom and a blank canvas, it could take forever to figure out what you want to do, but when you give people limitations and say, 'here's a canvas, but you can only paint with yellow..' – the wheels start turning, and you plan to get out of the box you're put in.
— AJ MendezProfessional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee
It's become synonymous with clothing but ultimately fashion is anything popular in a culture at any given time.
— Claudia SchifferSupermodel and fashion icon of the 1990s
Only relatively recently in our own culture, five hundred years or so ago, did a distinction arise that cut society in two, forming separate classes of music performers and music listeners.
— Hans ZimmerAcclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception
Throughout most of the world and for most of human history, music making was as natural an activity as breathing and walking, and everyone participated.
— Hans ZimmerAcclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception
The inexpressible depth of music... easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all of the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain.
— Hans ZimmerAcclaimed film composer known for scores like The Lion King and Inception