Born on May 15th
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Quotes by Authors Born Today (230)
"I was on the abutment."
— Abraham Zapruder"He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car."
— Abraham Zapruder"I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell."
— Abraham Zapruder"I got off the abutment and walked towards my office."
— Abraham Zapruder"Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out."
— Abraham Zapruder"Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film."
— Abraham Zapruder"Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film."
— Abraham Zapruder"When it comes to jiu-jitsu, enthusiasm, being able to say the right stuff and the best stuff, no one comes close to Joe Rogan. He just smashes everybody."
— Eddie Bravo"Marcelo Garcia is one of those fighters who trains with no-gi, and is also great with gi. When you train with no-gi you actually get better with gi too. I am spending all the time on no-gi, so it becomes a different animal."
— Eddie Bravo"So, when you train no-gi all the time, the no-gi style evolves quicker, twice as fast. Especially, the way we do it at 10th Planet, I am not just the one conveying the knowledge. All my students are involved."
— Eddie Bravo"The more affiliates I have the more I can sit back and let my brown belt and black belts do the work."
— Eddie Bravo"I can't travel every weekend. I like to spend some weekends at my studio."
— Eddie Bravo"My Jiu-Jitsu is very MMA focused. I was not the best striker, and when I considered becoming a MMA fighter I just focused to improve my BJJ."
— Eddie Bravo"Well, the difference between 10th Planet and most other jiu jitsu schools is the obvious thing... we train exclusively no-gi."
— Eddie Bravo"Most other schools train no-gi part time, or maybe even half the time. We train no-gi all the time."
— Eddie Bravo"A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level."
— Eddie Bravo"I have never seen anybody, and I don't think there has ever been anybody like Nick Diaz in all of MMA. Can you tell me another guy who is going to stand right in front of you, take big shots, and still keep coming at you with those body shots and those amazing combinations?"
— Eddie Bravo"I think anybody that is going to stand with Nick Diaz and try to throw down, that is a big mistake."
— Eddie Bravo"Nick Diaz is going to go down as one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time, no doubt."
— Eddie Bravo"You can't create Nick Diaz. That guy has some serious warrior spirit or something."
— Eddie Bravo"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be."
— Ken Venturi"The greatest gift in life is to be remembered."
— Ken Venturi"My father was a man of few words."
— Ken Venturi"People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer."
— Ken Venturi"I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer."
— Ken Venturi"The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure."
— Ken Venturi"I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone."
— Ken Venturi"Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories."
— Ken Venturi"There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once."
— Ken Venturi"Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses."
— Ken Venturi