You hire a chief executive, pay him, and hold him accountable after a year or two. The time for so-called honorary jobs is over. What Pakistan squash needs is results, and that can only be achieved by professionals. – Jahangir Khan
Ali even told me in the ring, ‘You can’t beat me – I’m your Lord.’ I just told him, ‘Lord, you’re in the wrong place tonight.’ – Joe Frazier
He is scary as the butcher, but you will not meet a lovelier, more interesting guy than Danny Huston. His stories leave me spellbound. I adore him. – Jeffrey Dean Morgan
‘Midnight Special’ is, like ‘Starman’, a government chase film – in the government chase film genre – about a boy who has special powers and the government agents’ quest to find him. – Jeff Nichols
You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders. – Jesse Ventura
The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what’s been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring. – James McBride
Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway. – John Madden
Bill Murray is a wonderful actor, and he’s very funny, and I’ve seen him be serious and terrific. – Geoffrey Ward
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. – Joseph Conrad
As many times as I’ve seen ‘The Merchant of Venice,’ I always take Shylock’s side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He’s treated cruelly. And it’s tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him. – John Irving
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. – John Milton
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech – antonomastice – the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness. – Jan Hus
President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader. – Jon Stewart
I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he’d come to school with me cos he was my favourite. – John Terry
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him. – Isaac Barrow
Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It’s not a hard decision. – Jerry Yang
I’m a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was making some decisions about running for the Senate in the first place. – John Thune
Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is known and portrayed. – John Piper
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn’t deserve it, give it to him anyhow. – John Ciardi
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character. – Joseph Barbera
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country’s finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice. – John Burnside
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. – John Barrymore
Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try and do what he was doing… you’re just inspired by it; you’re not trying to say, ‘Look, I can do that.’ No one can do what he did. – Jason Statham
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don’t need them they drop back. – Imogen Cunningham
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. – Jimmy Breslin
To say Roman Reigns isn’t connecting with an audience means you’re not listening. I’ve watched a lot of Roman Reigns, and every single time I see him, I hear noise. He connects very well with our audience. – John Cena