Alan Sugar quote: "My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team."

Whoever I pick as my apprentice, has gotta fit in at my company.
ALAN SUGAR

The money coming into the game [football] is incredible. But it is just the prune-juice effect - it ...
ALAN SUGAR

I don't think too many people would want my job. I'm a bit of a nutter.
ALAN SUGAR

You're a lightweight. You're fired.
ALAN SUGAR

As part of this agreement we will sell significant volumes of this new product in the financial year...
ALAN SUGAR

Although we anticipate a good performance in the current financial year, shareholders should not exp...
ALAN SUGAR

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
ALAN SUGAR

I gotta tell ya, you're fired!
ALAN SUGAR

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't ...
ALAN SUGAR

Well, it's not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody mi...
ALAN SUGAR

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.
ALAN SUGAR

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a...
ALAN SUGAR

I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire ...
ALAN SUGAR

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't...
ALAN SUGAR

I don't make enemies, it's just I'm not afraid to speak my mind, which can sometimes mea...
ALAN SUGAR

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
ALAN SUGAR

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of thing...
ALAN SUGAR

I am tired of hustling.
ALAN SUGAR

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't underst...
ALAN SUGAR

I have always been an honest trader. I come from a school of traders where there was honour in the d...
ALAN SUGAR

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition ...
ALAN SUGAR

You can't stop people printing what they want to print.
ALAN SUGAR

Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one ...
ALAN SUGAR

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
ALAN SUGAR

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a tit...
ALAN SUGAR

There is a lot of luck in football. Following England is like following Wycombe Wanders or Leyton Or...
ALAN SUGAR

You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to m...
ALAN SUGAR

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one...
ALAN SUGAR

When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.
ALAN SUGAR

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.
ALAN SUGAR

I get angry when people bring derisory actions against me.
ALAN SUGAR

The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.
ALAN SUGAR

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.
ALAN SUGAR

Money is all right but once you have it you learn it's not the be all and end all.
ALAN SUGAR

I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from
ALAN SUGAR

I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just ...
REBECCA SUGAR

I'm really inspired by the show 'Future Boy Conan' from the '70s. It's a really ...
REBECCA SUGAR

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writi...
REBECCA SUGAR

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR

The heavyweight division is on the cusp of being called off for lack of interest. A hundred years ag...
BERT SUGAR

They gave him a steak the night before the bout and said they had prepared that one especially for h...
BERT SUGAR

The heavyweight division is on the cusp of being called off for lack of interest, ... A hundred year...
BERT SUGAR

There's a lot of money to be made by somebody, but I don't know who that somebody would be.
BERT SUGAR

If Rahman walked down street in his gloves and boxing trunks, they'd have a problem recognizing him.
BERT SUGAR

Boxing promoters, for all the bad [things] you say about them, have an eye for talent,
BERT SUGAR

He had landed the 'thunder and lightning', but to no avail...Ingo was a very good boxer, but I won't...
BERT SUGAR

Ray Lewis would be a hell of a heavyweight.
BERT SUGAR

It is a terrible division.
BERT SUGAR

Greg Page ... was one of the greatest amateurs I ever saw, and that's 40 years of watching. But I pu...
BERT SUGAR

We have incurred tremendous damage.
RON SUGAR

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the p...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue coll...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

I want to be great, something special.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I am excited to share my archive pictures and footage. I'll also share announcements about curre...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to b...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way y...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would r...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at time...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gav...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I went through real darkness, but the ring was my light. That was the one place I felt safe. I could...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-ma...
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have y...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you'v...
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

I ain't never liked violence.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

My business is hurting people.
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

For the most part, I think video games do a good job of capturing the essence of boxing. However, I&...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

You always say "I'll quit when I start to slide," and then one morning you wake up and realize you'v...
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-m...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

at times it becomes too invasive.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mi...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I figure it's like something that has to be, before Marvin and me can be content with ourselves. The...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I wanted to do in boxing what Bruce Lee was able to do in karate. Lee was an artist, and, like him, ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Boxing is individual, although there's a team concept because you need a great corner, you need ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and r...
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I d...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For heal...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. I...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants t...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There'...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Su...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I ...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS

I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS

Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY

I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY

If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS

I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS

Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
ALAN WATTS

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
ALAN WATTS

No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans fo...
ALAN WATTS

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the s...
ALAN WATTS

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instr...
ALAN WATTS

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
ALAN WATTS

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in t...
ALAN KEYES

Arsenal paid a lot of money for him a few years ago but he found it difficult to claim a first-team ...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

It was a great night for us and a great achievement. Who knows what will happen in the next round. I...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There has not really been a lot going on for Stephan, he has not had many saves to make. I want to h...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this w...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
ALAN CUMMING

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?
ALAN CUMMING

It's a sort of anti-Broadway musical. It's odd, disjointed and spiky.
ALAN CUMMING

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what...
ALAN CUMMING

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
ALAN CUMMING

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
ALAN CUMMING

When Brian went by me, I thought he was some guy that jumped on the course.
ALAN CULPEPPER

In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could...
ALAN CULPEPPER

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which incl...
ALAN LIGHTMAN

At this point, our office is going to prepare to go to trial again, ... We believe the jury will com...
ALAN CURRY

We haven't made a decision yet. I think there's several options open to us and that's something work...
ALAN CURRY

Andrea Yates knew precisely what she was doing, ... She knew that it was wrong.
ALAN CURRY

He has come here to gain experience, and nothing can happen until December anyway. I believe Gary Ne...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

I left some of the boys out completely to have a rest,
ALAN CURBISHLEY

We moved in straight away, and although he was publicly linked with other clubs, we were always conf...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

Danny is a player we have been tracking for some time, but he only became available last week,
ALAN CURBISHLEY

Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal...
ALAN CURBISHLEY

The player wanted to come to us and we are very pleased to welcome him.
ALAN CURBISHLEY

My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.

Alan Sugar

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