Izzo Quotes & Sayings

Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you have to give them the level of discipline they need. — Tom Izzo

Happiness. One day. Ten thousand years ago. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms. — Tom Izzo

I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State. — Tom Izzo

I felt suffocated. And alone. More alone than ever. Every year, I ostentatiously crossed out of my address book any friend who'd made a racist remark, neglected those whose only ambition was a new car and a Club Med vacation, and forgot all those who played the Lottery. I loved fishing and silence. Walking the hills. Drinking cold Cassis, Lagavulin, or Oban late into the night. I didn't talk much. Had opinions about everything. Life and death. Good and evil. I was a film buff. Loved music. I'd stopped reading contemporary novels. More than anything, I loathed half-hearted, spineless people. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Victims are also less likely to take initiative because they feel outcomes are not in their hands anyway. An organization filled with victims will generally have low morale, have more risk-averse behavior, and find it difficult to implement change. — John Izzo

You've got to rely on people. I know you're hurting because of all the bad things that have happened to you, but in order to live, truly live, you've got to feel pain, you've got to trust, and you've got to love. — Kim Izzo

Killing was easy. Dying was something else. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it. — Lorenza Izzo

Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that — Tom Izzo

I don't like answering private questions. The answers are often ambiguous and can be interpreted in different ways. Even when the other person is close to you. — Jean-Claude Izzo

...I understand where you're coming from. I know it isn't just a question of revenge. It's the feeling there are some things you can't let pass. If you did, you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror afterwards. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline — Tom Izzo

From a brain perspective, every time we do something we are more likely to do it again, and every time we stop ourselves from doing something we are less likely to do it again. — John Izzo

I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived. — Lorenza Izzo

We are in the trophy generation.Give them a trophy for 23rd place.That makes the parents happy — Tom Izzo

Boom, I move to L.A. after doing 'Aftershock,' and I've been actually working here. So it's all been 'boom'; it's all been 'boom' everything. It's so exciting. It's been amazing. I'm a very lucky girl. — Lorenza Izzo

I spent months fighting the fact that she had a personality disorder, but everything changed when I started asking myself how I had to adapt to work with a boss like her. — John Izzo

So much violence. If God existed, I'd have strangled him on the spot. Without batting an eyelid. And with all the fury of the damned. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Days are only beautiful early in the morning. I should have remembered that. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. When the world opens its eyes, reality reasserts itself, and you're back with the same old shit. — Jean-Claude Izzo

I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.' — Jay-Z

We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen — Tom Izzo

I go to shady places all the time. — Lorenza Izzo

I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Wimps go up to rebound with one hand, not two. — Tom Izzo

I meant to learn something," Sophie said, impatient. "Something else than embroidery or dancing, or playing pretty tunes on the pianoforte. I am not a decorative object, Father. I have an intellect, also, and I wish to make good use of it. — Sylvia Izzo Hunter

Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Happiness is not in what is happening; it is in how I process what is happening. — John Izzo

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear. — Jean-Claude Izzo

I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry — Jean-Claude Izzo

It's at moment of misfortune that we remember we're all exiles. — Jean-Claude Izzo

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives. — Jean-Claude Izzo

The future cannot be controlled, only experienced. — John Izzo

What is the difference between good and great? "Sacrifice — Tom Izzo

Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Why was it so difficult to make new friends once you were past forty Was it because we didn't have dreams anymore, only regrets? — Jean-Claude Izzo

The one thing I could give them was a smile. I've always been good at smiles. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Nobody was speaking. Only the cicadas continued their whine, indifferent to human tragedies. — Jean-Claude Izzo

I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness — Tom Izzo