#start

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#bleed #boxing #could #down #eight

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

#i #improve #leadership #led #more

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting. ↗

— James Stewart

#always #call #curtain #first #got

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone. ↗

— George Strait

#anymore #came #career #decided #early

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting. ↗

— Patti Smith

#drawings #getting #handwriting #i #into

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant. ↗

— Patti Smith

#insight #intelligent #kind #like #people

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important. ↗

— Robert Smith

#cure #i #important #out #over

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs. ↗

— Robert Smith

#guitarist #i #rhythm #singer #songs

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it. ↗

— Samantha Smith

#first #going #never #ones #said

Well, I asked him who would start the war first. ↗

— Samantha Smith

#first #him #i #start #war