Alonzo Quotes & Sayings

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth. — Amos Alonzo Stagg

I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it's home - Texas is home. I've been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile. — Cristela Alonzo

Because I grew up in McAllen, we would watch Televisa a lot. — Cristela Alonzo

When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest. — Alonzo Mourning

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner. — Cristela Alonzo

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic. — Cristela Alonzo

Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do not hijack planes. In fact, in the history of aviation, a black person has never even attempted to hijack a plane. Do you want to know why? Because you can't sell an airplane. — Alonzo Bodden

For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay. — Lord Dunsany

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her. — Cristela Alonzo

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last. — Alonzo Mourning

I like psycho chicks ... Yeah, you hook up with a psycho, you're gonna learn something. First thing you learn is how to sleep with one eye open. — Alonzo Bodden

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education. — Alonzo Mourning

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days. — Alonzo Bodden

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival. — Cristela Alonzo

I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get. — Cristela Alonzo

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled. — Alonzo Mourning

I ride because there's nothing like in the world. It's a passion. It's something I absolutely have to do and I can never imagine not doing it. — Alonzo Bodden

Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity. — Alonzo King

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old ... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me. — Alonzo Mourning

A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it. — Alonzo Mourning

Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's power to take the crowd wherever I want them to go. I love it when they laugh, especially when they relate through laughter. It's a beautiful thing. It also means I'm going to get paid, which is nice. — Alonzo Bodden

They sold me a duvet cover, and I don't have a duvet, I don't think. Then, they started treating me like I'm the idiot. They're like, 'Do you have a comforter?' 'Yeah.' 'Well, you have to protect it!' I had no idea it was under attack. — Alonzo Bodden

I was teaching airplane mechanics when I realized it was more fun to make them laugh. I was laid off one more time and I never looked back, although it was nice to have a steady paycheck and benefits. — Alonzo Bodden

Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat. — Alonzo Bodden

I was on the highway - I saw the scariest thing in the world, man. I saw an Asian driving an SUV. Really, I just drove my car right into the guardrail, figured I'd save him some time. — Alonzo Bodden

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. — Alonzo Church

So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't work with them in the realm of ideas. It's a huge problem if they haven't been connecting internally. If they've decided that what's inside is of little value, they can only try to approximate some kind of look. — Alonzo King

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood. — Amos Alonzo Stagg

I didn't understand NASCAR until I met some NASCAR fans. You talk to a couple of NASCAR fans and you'll see where a shiny car driving in a circle would fascinate them all day. And I can make fun of NASCAR fans, because if they chase me, I just turn right. — Alonzo Bodden

Every day theres something new. Something's going to destroy us all. Then it disappears. — Alonzo Bodden

But I can't make up my mind yet which to marry," wrote Phil. "I do wish you had come with me to decide for me. Some one will have to. When I saw Alec my heart gave a great thump and I thought, 'He might be the right one.' And then, when Alonzo came, thump went my heart again. So that's no guide, though it should be, according to all the novels I've ever read. Now, Anne, YOUR heart wouldn't thump for anybody but the genuine Prince Charming, would it? There must be something radically wrong with mine. But I'm having a perfectly gorgeous time. How I wish you were here! — L.M. Montgomery

I grew up in the suburbs. I'm an angry suburban nergo. I'm bad in, like, Starbucks. I'll hurt you over a frappuccino. — Alonzo Bodden

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters. — Cristela Alonzo

My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie. — Cristela Alonzo

You can want and hope, or you can make it happen. — Alonzo Mourning

I'm back there again, broken from being a champion,
The boy that no one loved,
The years I spent training like a method actor to
Become the man that everyone admired,
But it means nothing,
Like ashes on a forehead, they marked me inferior,
When I was still young enough to receive it into the grain of my being — Terrence Alonzo Craft

My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern. — Alonzo Mourning

For spirits like ours, freedom is consumption, transportation on beams of sun — Terrence Alonzo Craft

Latinos outnumber Black people now. I'm not too happy about it. Because it's only a matter of time before we lose our month. Soon as they figure it out, they're going to have Latino History Month. All we're going to have is Cinco de Negro. — Alonzo Bodden

My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death. — Cristela Alonzo

Layer upon layer of soft-packed snowflakes settled in near silence, forming a quilt of feathery ice crystals. — Rebecca Nichols Alonzo

I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can. — Queen Latifah

I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore. — Cristela Alonzo

I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch. — Cristela Alonzo

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. — Alonzo Church

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways. — Alonzo Mourning

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach. — Amos Alonzo Stagg

My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury. — Alonzo King

Scientists are trying to invent Viagra for women. It's been along for years ... it's called cash. — Alonzo Bodden

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.' — Cristela Alonzo

I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out. — Alonzo Mourning

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative. — Cristela Alonzo

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia. — Alonzo Mourning

There's always something that's going to kill us all. A few years ago, tomatoes were going to kill us and a few years before that it was spinach. The FDA is run by a 7-year-old kid that hates vegetables! — Alonzo Bodden

I'm a black male, over 40, with no kids, living in the suburbs - they wanted to put me in a museum. Why did I move to the suburbs? I started watching Desperate Housewives. If comedy didn't work out I can always try gardening. — Alonzo Bodden

Watching news showing all the same sex marriages. How long before first same sex divorce? — Alonzo Bodden

There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level ... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can. — Alonzo Mourning

I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work. — Alonzo Bodden

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests. — Alonzo Mourning

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that. — Alonzo Mourning

Forgiveness is the language of heaven. — Rebecca Nichols Alonzo

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life. — Alonzo Mourning

The funny thing is, last summer we were golfing together, me, him and Alonzo [Mourning]. I don't know how to golf, but it's an unbelievable opportunity to go out and golf with one of the greats. And he's out there making fun of my swing - I can't hit the ball - and I'm getting frustrated because I'm a competitor. So Alonzo pulled me aside and said, 'Man, you're getting the chance to golf with Bill Russell. How many people can say they've done that?' And I looked at him and said, 'You know what? You're right.' — Dwyane Wade

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. — Alonzo Church

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King

Every man's disease is his personal property. — Alonzo M. Clark

A lot of my material was based on my family. — Cristela Alonzo

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen. — Cristela Alonzo

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me. — Alonzo Mourning

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. — Alonzo Mourning

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction. — Alonzo Mourning

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback. — Alonzo Mourning

A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright,
Conversed as they sat on the green.
They gazed on each other with tender delight,
Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight
The maiden's the Fair Imogene. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream. — Cristela Alonzo

There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms part of our illusion; but let a man be much annoyed by something that others do, so that he is separated from them and has to leave them, and looks back at what they are doing, and he'll see at once all manner of whimsical absurdities that he had not noticed before; and Ramon Alonzo in the shade of his oak, waiting for the noon to go by, grew very contemptuous of the attitude that the world took up towards shadows. — Lord Dunsany

Women like jewelry. They're like racoons: show them some shiny stuff and they'll follow you home. — Alonzo Bodden

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes. — Cristela Alonzo

I pray not for victory, but to do my best. — Amos Alonzo Stagg

The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype. — Cristela Alonzo

The deep art ... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money ... Like a dope addict would his dope ... Like a lover with their love. — Alonzo King

I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up. — Alonzo Bodden

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards. — Cristela Alonzo

Is this my best team ever? I won't know that for another 20 years or so. — Amos Alonzo Stagg

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come. — Alonzo Mourning

We had one idiot put a bomb in a shoe, and now everybody's got to take their shoes off? Where's the bra bomber at? I say, if we've gotta wait in line, let's make it fun for everybody. — Alonzo Bodden

Stoudemire is like Alonzo Mourning and my old teammates Willis Reed and Dave DeBusschere. He's aggressive and make things happen. He's always hustling and muscling, hounding and pounding guys into submission. — Walt Frazier

Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate. — Alonzo King

I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue. — Alonzo Church

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies. — Alonzo M. Clark

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist ... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter. — Alonzo King

What's interesting about you is you. — Alonzo King

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment. — Alonzo King

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good. — Cristela Alonzo

We don't have enough Latinos on TV just getting cast in supporting roles; the idea of having your own show named after you seemed like such a long shot. — Cristela Alonzo

you sit across from me in the garden,
pretending that you have to leave shortly,

I know, as always, you want me to play the fool,
and ask, Am I keeping you?

Yes.

Well, if so, then
can I keep you?

This is the paradigm of us. We are civilization and paradise, but
We are Armageddon, and wastelands. — Terrence Alonzo Craft

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known. — Alonzo King

I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading. — Alonzo Church

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship. — Alonzo Mourning

I always find heroes who are just like me,
I forget they're only human, and like me, broken — Terrence Alonzo Craft