#myself

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#fights #had #hadn #i #made

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#first #give #i #myself #number

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#been #black #city #diverse #generation

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important. ↗

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#first #foremost #i #important #love

I don't look at myself as suffering. ↗

— A. J. Langer

#look #myself #suffering

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#feel #first #gonna #his #how

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid. ↗