Billy Joe Quotes & Sayings

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going. — Billy Joe Saunders

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that. — Billy Joe Saunders

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold. — Billy Joe Saunders

I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess — Billy Joe Shaver

Turn it off," she said, her voice cracking.
"It's still good music," Joe told her with an almost apologetic shrug.
"It's crap," she breathed, still totally taken aback by the music playing again.
He shook his head. "No, it's not crap!" he said patiently and started peeling out of his sweater, trying hard not to get his braced hand caught in the sleeve. He emerged, his hair a bit messy, and tossed the sweater back towards the sofa. — Billy Wood-Smith

But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters. — Billy Joe Saunders

Woody Pines is the best band I ever heard in my life I swear. I'm their biggest fan now! — Billy Joe Shaver

What about your servant? Did he see anything?"
[ ... ]As soon as the crisis was over, Billy had fled into his necklace and I hadn't seen him since.
I gave him little poke, just for the hell of it, and got back the metaphysical version of the finger. "Billy doesn't know anything," I translated.
"Are you certain?"
Tell him to suck my balls!
"Pretty certain. — Karen Chance

Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy."
Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright. — Joe Meno

People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights. — Billy Joe Saunders

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title. — Billy Joe Saunders

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination. — David Allan Coe

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do. — Billy Joe Saunders

Songwriting is the cheapest psychiatrist I know. — Billy Joe Shaver

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday). — Billy Joe Shaver

There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through. — Billy Joe Saunders

Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun — Joe Garagiola

I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice. — Billy Joel

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional. — Billy Joe Saunders

I may go for it or I may not. It all depends on what I elect to do on my backswing. — Billy Joe Patton

But why? Why did you do the evil things you did?' Billy asks suddenly.
'Ah, because I could not imagine consequences,' the Professor says. 'To do harm, to live through evil, is to align oneself with chaos. Now it is the same chaos which is slowly destroying me. — Joe Meno

You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me. — Billy Joe Shaver

Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog. — Billy Sunday

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out. — Billy Joe Saunders

I'm fighting for the Commonwealth title on Saturday and I believe I'll be ready for a world title shot in the next 18 months. — Billy Joe Saunders

The Devil made me do it the first time -
the second time I done it on my own — Billy Joe Shaver

There is power in prayer, but there is added power in a combination of fasting and prayer. — Billy Joe Daugherty

We did something very simple," Effie says.
"Yes, and what was that?"
Effie Mumford stares off the porch into the night sky. The first stars of the evening are quietly arriving, and Billy, following her gaze, listens as the small girl speaks.
"We allowed ourselves, for one brief moment, to believe in something we could not see. — Joe Meno

But the more you thing about it, I think the best songwriter is the one who makes you feel like you are in the best place in the world when you are listening to his or her songs. The one who makes you understand yourself a little better when your ears hear their words. At that moment, that songwriter is the best. That's the beauty of a song. — Billy Joe Shaver

I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver. — Billy Joe Saunders

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. — Ben Folds

I'm one of the best finishers in the business, so I went for it. — Billy Joe Saunders

-Are you ready to return to the outside world, Billy?
-No, definitely not, sir.
-Well, you can't stay here forever now, can you?
-Why not? I'm not bothering anybody, sir.
-Because it's not healthy. You're a very special young man, Billy. It's time you found that out on your own, out there. The world may not be as terrible as you think.
-I would like to stay here one more month, if I may, sir.
-One more month? Why?
-Summer will be over, sir. I can't go out there if it's going to be summertime.
-And why not?
-I wouldn't want to see any young girls playing. I would not want to see any flowers outside.
-Why?
-Because everything happy right now is going to die.
-But Billy...
-I would not like to be reminded of anything pretty.
-But Billy, of course, anything might...
-I would not like to be reminded.
-OK, OK. We will se what we can do, Billy. — Joe Meno

I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could be the start of my climb to a world title. — Billy Joe Saunders

To know you is to hate you, so loving you must be like suicide. — Billy Joe Armstrong

It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall. — Billy Joe Saunders