#lem

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#am #because #ever #finish #first

So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting. ↗

— John Robinson

#acting #being #come #competitive #could

Pretty girls have problems too. ↗

— Chris Rock

#pretty girls #problems #too

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#check #gentlemen #heart #i #i do

One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#asia #centuries #east #middle #middle east

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#being #came #crazy #fill #me

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#avenue #away #far #far away #grew

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

#distance #enough #guess #included #many

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#knowing #much #not knowing #problem #speeches

It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#being #big #board #came #connected