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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doing what I can to suppress it and I don't let it take advantage of me. It's not who I am. You know, I'm James Durbin. Like I said in the beginning, I am here to show America who I am, and it is what it is.

I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'