People call me a nerd because I like to spend time on the computer.
Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.
Ray Charles: Hit the road, Jack!
Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.
I have a lot of love inside my house. I can't ask for more.
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
[Ray explains Terence Mann's "pain" to Annie] Ray Kinsella: The man wrote the best books of his generation. And he was a pioneer of the Civil Rights and the anti-war movement. I mean, he made the cover of Newsweek. He knew everybody. He did everythin...
Charlie: You've got a date, Ray, you're gonna go dancing. Raymond: Yeah. Charlie: You know how to dance, Ray? Raymond: No. Charlie: I'll have to teach you sometime. Raymond: Definitely have to dance on my date. Have to learn how to dance. Definitely....
Milt Shaw: He's filed a lawsuit, Ray, and it's more than a fine. This guy's got juice, he can get you barred from ever playing Georgia again. But he's willing to drop the suit if you make up the gig. Ray Charles: Not if it's segregated. Milt Shaw: Ra...
Billy Ray Valentine: [after breaking a vase] Hey, sorry about that. Randolph Duke: It's perfectly all right William. It was your vase. Billy Ray Valentine: That was a cheap vase, right? That was a fake? Right? Randolph Duke: I believe we paid $35,000...
Canadian Guy: Fucking unbelievable. Ray: What's fucking unbelievable? Canadian Guy: Are you talking to me? Ray: [to himself] He pauses, even though he should just hit the cunt, and he repeats [to the Canadian] Ray: Yes, I am talking to you. What's fu...
Annie Kinsella: [trying to understand the situation] I mean, Shoeless Joe... Ray Kinsella: He's dead. Died in '51; he's dead. Annie Kinsella: He's the one they suspended, right? Ray Kinsella: Right. Annie Kinsella: He's still dead? Ray Kinsella: Far ...
Coleman: [offering Billy Ray a sip from his flask; Coleman dressed as a priest, Billy Ray in African garb] Would you like a sip of whiskey? Billy Ray Valentine: I do not drink, it is against my religion! Coleman: Religion is a good thing I say, taken...
Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.
Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.
Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.
If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.
Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.
Winning the first championship is a goal for any boxer, and it means a lot to reach it.
As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.
