Bill Simmons quote: "What I need to do and what I owe the world is my very best because it gave me the very best it had when I really needed it. And it's my job to give back the very best that I've got."

The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody...
BILL SIMMONS

First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in...
BILL SIMMONS

Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two...
BILL SIMMONS

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impa...
BILL SIMMONS

In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and beli...
BILL SIMMONS

[Talented ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons will be at Borders in Mission Valley at 6 tonight to sign ...
BILL SIMMONS

Even though a decision has been made, the war is not over. Some of those jobs we are confident will ...
BILL SIMMONS

That's one less headache for parents.
BILL SIMMONS

as if they're better people because they root for a baseball team only because A) they grew up withi...
BILL SIMMONS

Even when all those things happened, they refused to give up on me. When most people would say, 'You...
BILL SIMMONS

I was in 26 different placements and three group homes.
BILL SIMMONS

It was a big morale booster.
BILL SIMMONS

It went more smoothly than it did last year. We had a year to learn the routines of the building, th...
BILL SIMMONS

It does several things, one there is no shareholder accountability and there are no federal and stat...
BILL SIMMONS

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to ...
BILL SIMMONS

The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I move...
BILL SIMMONS

I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my boo...
BILL SIMMONS

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different gene...
BILL SIMMONS

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of e...
BILL SIMMONS

Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when the...
BILL SIMMONS

I don't understand the justification for it. It's a $14 billion cut on social mobility in this count...
BILL SIMMONS

If you don't agree with me, I have two words for you: shut the fuck up.
BILL SIMMONS

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most...
BILL SIMMONS

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s...
BILL SIMMONS

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes foreve...
BILL SIMMONS

I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous to...
BILL SIMMONS

I graduated college in 1992 and didn't reach a sizable audience with my column for nine solid ye...
BILL SIMMONS

The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand...
BILL SIMMONS

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this...
BILL SIMMONS

If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in ...
BILL SIMMONS

Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours afte...
BILL SIMMONS

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.
BILL SIMMONS

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.
BILL SIMMONS

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.
GENE SIMMONS

I don't think I have a black-hat image.
HAROLD SIMMONS

I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the ima...
HAROLD SIMMONS

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do...
HAROLD SIMMONS

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given q...
HAROLD SIMMONS

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. ...
GENE SIMMONS

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look...
GENE SIMMONS

I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mo...
GENE SIMMONS

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and...
RICHARD SIMMONS

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court...
RICHARD SIMMONS

When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying ...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing t...
GAIL SIMMONS

I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv...
GAIL SIMMONS

I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I...
GAIL SIMMONS

First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in bu...
GAIL SIMMONS

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
GAIL SIMMONS

There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that though...
GAIL SIMMONS

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finis...
GAIL SIMMONS

I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'To...
GAIL SIMMONS

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars...
GAIL SIMMONS

Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food...
GAIL SIMMONS

You don't get second chances in the real world.
GAIL SIMMONS

I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. Fo...
GAIL SIMMONS

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
GAIL SIMMONS

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors sh...
GAIL SIMMONS

I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that...
GAIL SIMMONS

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
GAIL SIMMONS

Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
GAIL SIMMONS

I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have...
GAIL SIMMONS

It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, b...
GAIL SIMMONS

I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself...
GAIL SIMMONS

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don'...
JAKE SIMMONS

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an ...
GENE SIMMONS

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
GENE SIMMONS

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
DAN SIMMONS

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the histor...
DAN SIMMONS

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
DAN SIMMONS

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district ...
DAN SIMMONS

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
DAN SIMMONS

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their ow...
DAN SIMMONS

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
DAN SIMMONS

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
DAN SIMMONS

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in an...
DAN SIMMONS

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon t...
DAN SIMMONS

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and no...
DAN SIMMONS

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writi...
DAN SIMMONS

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
DAN SIMMONS

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
DAN SIMMONS

When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't wa...
J.K. SIMMONS

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies...
DAN SIMMONS

God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknow...
DAN SIMMONS

For a person born and raised into a world where information was always at hand, communication with a...
DAN SIMMONS

The Hegemony and its relationship with the Ousters aren’t my worry now. I sincerely wish a plague ...
DAN SIMMONS

Sol Weintraub suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when...
DAN SIMMONS

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?"

Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, sof...
DAN SIMMONS

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To m...
CHARLES SIMMONS

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by f...
CHARLES SIMMONS

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.
CURT SIMMONS

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
CHARLES SIMMONS

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
EDWARD SIMMONS

True greatness consists in being great in little things.
CHARLES SIMMONS

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, repu...
CHARLES SIMMONS

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
CHARLES SIMMONS

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
CHARLES SIMMONS

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it
JOE SIMMONS

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by f...
CHARLES SIMMONS

I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can...
GAIL SIMMONS

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether i...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta...
GAIL SIMMONS

If I ever make a lot of money in the NBA, I'm going to have this massive tank, and it's goin...
BEN SIMMONS

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high chole...
RICHARD SIMMONS

Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We...
GENE SIMMONS

There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen...
LILI SIMMONS

I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars&...
LILI SIMMONS

Just trust those around you and trust yourself.
JOHNNY SIMMONS

Patience is the secret to good food.
GAIL SIMMONS

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazi...
RICHARD SIMMONS

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
CHARLES SIMMONS

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express someth...
GENE SIMMONS

Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of...
GAIL SIMMONS

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to ...
RICHARD SIMMONS

Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anyth...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better ...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don&#...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep l...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Service is the key to everything in life.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetr...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to cre...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good ...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I think when you're very dedicated to something and you're engaged fully, you become a giver...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very ...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you&#...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourse...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to he...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It's a step process.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the visi...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receiv...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

I remember liking 'A Cinderella Story' with Hilary Duff a lot when I was younger. I loved th...
LILI SIMMONS

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened y...
GENE SIMMONS

I love being around my mom, my brother, my sister and my step-dad. I love to sit outside on those co...
ALVIN SIMMONS

When I am not playing baseball I like to sleep and hang out with my friends playing Xbox.
ALVIN SIMMONS

I love playing baseball man. I am always playing baseball and I definitely want to play in college.
ALVIN SIMMONS

I am going to Gulf Shores to spend the week with some friends. But I can't go until Tuesday night be...
ALVIN SIMMONS

We came out strong in the first quarter. We played well.
AMANDA SIMMONS

What we said was to forget that last game. Everything we did that night was uncharacteristic of our ...
AMANDA SIMMONS

I was trying to keep calm. Everybody was making noise in the background and I tried not to let it bo...
AMANDA SIMMONS

Everything just started to slowly go wrong. After halftime, the lead went back and forth. Our defens...
AMANDA SIMMONS

It felt good but we knew they had some good shooters and would come back. They came out and obviousl...
AMANDA SIMMONS

When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you we...
LAURIE SIMMONS

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That&#...
GENE SIMMONS

I'm the best PlayStation player you'll ever see. I'll play anything. 'Call of Duty,&...
BEN SIMMONS

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorder...
RICHARD SIMMONS

If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody...
GENE SIMMONS

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well ...
GENE SIMMONS

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's reci...
GAIL SIMMONS

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.
RICHARD SIMMONS

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
CHARLES SIMMONS

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
GAIL SIMMONS

I'm a big guy, but I play with a guard mentality. I got that from my dad, and it's always st...
BEN SIMMONS

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them hap...
GENE SIMMONS

My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend eve...
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once y...
JEAN SIMMONS

Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it
CHARLES SIMMONS

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It ha...
DAN SIMMONS

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me...
RICHARD SIMMONS

Our ultimate goal is to get to Detroit again. I like that stadium. It's a pretty nice stadium.
BRIAN SIMMONS

Not having a winning season, not going to the playoffs -- we've erased that history. Now at this poi...
BRIAN SIMMONS

For us this year, it seems they've been coming in bunches. Once one happens, two or three more are s...
BRIAN SIMMONS

We didn't make up any special recipes or do any witchcraft before the game. Guys just went out there...
BRIAN SIMMONS

It was nothing but fun, having fun out there. You really like to enjoy yourself while you're playing...
BRIAN SIMMONS

They were in a hurry-up, and that did slow it down and give us a chance to huddle, and we kind of ca...
BRIAN SIMMONS

Interceptions don't come without pressure.
BRIAN SIMMONS

We've had years around here where the defense was playing well and the offense wasn't playing too we...
BRIAN SIMMONS

In this league that's a hard thing to do. We didn't get it done, but the bottom line is we got the w...
BRIAN SIMMONS

It's big. You get off and you're not behind the eight-ball. The last two years, we've been putting o...
BRIAN SIMMONS

I'm really done. I don't know if I can handle it anymore. In college, everybody gets better, and you...
BRAD SIMMONS

The whole year was awesome ? I'm not going to sell myself short. I did everything I wanted to this y...
BRAD SIMMONS

I knew I wasn't going to be my brothers. I wanted to have fun and focus more on the sport than tryin...
BRAD SIMMONS

I want to win a state title.
BRAD SIMMONS

The early wireless pioneers had to cobble together highly [customized] software, applications and de...
BOB SIMMONS

Travel across the state and meet alums and that's the one thing people have talked about is the hist...
BOB SIMMONS

That's why I clearly labeled them as coming from her.
BOB SIMMONS

He's a good kid with a lot of speed.
BOB SIMMONS

You can't do anything about those shots that you missed but improve and try not to make those shots ...
BOB SIMMONS

All you can do is coach the guys you've got, ... We recognize [the history of the position] and that...
BOB SIMMONS

The early wireless pioneers had to cobble together highly [customized] software, applications and de...
BOB SIMMONS

a male nurse leaned over and said, 'Hey Coach, how are we going to be next year?' So then it hit the...
BOB SIMMONS

If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why:...
GENE SIMMONS

Down the stretch there were a few shots that we missed that we would normally make. As a team, I thi...
BOBBY SIMMONS

That's the benefit of having a teammate like T.J. who can penetrate and pitch the ball. I told him, ...
BOBBY SIMMONS

The majority of the time those shots usually drop for us. But tonight, they just didn't. It was noth...
BOBBY SIMMONS

All you can do is contest him. If you contest his shots, then hopefully he'll miss them.
BOBBY SIMMONS

I think it's just a complete thing of everybody just playing together and also myself just finding a...
BOBBY SIMMONS

I was just hoping that fatigue wasn't setting in from (Friday's) loss. Everybody played well and we ...
BOBBY SIMMONS

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cr...
RICHARD SIMMONS

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not e...
RICHARD SIMMONS

I think my versatility is a big strength. I don't think anybody can guard me, just because I'...
BEN SIMMONS

What I need to do and what I owe the world is my very best because it gave me the very best it had when I really needed it. And it's my job to give back the very best that I've got.

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