The face of our sport is Dana White and out here in conservative New York, the way people think, bald-headed, tattoo’d, swearing people are just not a good representative of our brand and unfortunately people think that Dana White speaks for MMA, and they’re confused.
We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I’m saying to women is, ‘Okay. If it’s a game, here are the rules that we play by.’
After three years in L.A., I began to dream of my glory days on the boards. But it’s very difficult to make a living as a theater actor in New York, which is why I moved out here, and I always had an ambition to work in television. I am a great admirer of the format, and I think it’s how we tell long stories.
Playing on the PGA Tour and playing professional golf, I think it’s what everyone has dreamed of doing – all the guys who are out here. I’m just happy to be able to call this a job, if you want to call it a job.
Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.
I’m an aging show pony and they trot me out here and there.
Basically, I played basketball for a small college out here in California and when I was done playing college, I settled down and got a job.
I like L.A., I like the fans, I like to come out here to work.
It’s not like I’m fighting bums out here, I’m fighting the best competition out there, and I’d been a perennial top five guy in the UFC before I left.
The beauty of golf, you’re in charge out here.
There’s a lot of great singers out here.
DoMode’ is get out here and do your job and do work.
You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.
We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
I think you should have some more lesbian women out here on the British TV!
I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain’s license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.
I’m a secret interior decorator. There’s a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
I come up with more ideas when I’m on the road, but I don’t get to finish them. I don’t get to fully flush them out because I’m so busy on the road. I’m very all over the place, but I’m definitely most creative when I’m out here.
Everyone out here in Los Angeles is trying to do whatever to break into films. It is a tough industry to get into, kind of like pro wrestling in a lot of respects when you think about it.
I think anyone that isn’t fired up right now shouldn’t probably be out here.
People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils… Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it’s happening. There’s no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn’t imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it’s still very isolated out here.
When I was out in Portland there was a lot of really great things about it. But being home, I’m a New Yorker, and I think I’ve really enjoyed being back out here.
Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games.
To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it’s unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.
There’s something about being out here on the road that the hours aren’t anything like what you’re used to when you’re at home.
Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.
I’ll be doing God a discredit if I didn’t come out here and showcase all this ability that he gave me and try to give the fans entertainment and be who I am.
I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they – there’s not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There’s a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they’ll listen because it’s lonely out here.
I definitely think the way the game is transforming, becoming more and more athletic, guys are great athletes out here and relying on the physical skills more than their tennis skills, almost, sometimes. So for that reason, matching up with some of these guys, I can’t keep up.
I could never leave Las Vegas. I can’t really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don’t have that much. We have the Runnin’ Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it’s good for the whole city. It’s like the Super Bowl out here.
The older you get, the more you need to work on your game and try to survive with those young fellas out here.
There’s a lot of people out here faking a smile on their face like they got it together but inside actually suffering from some sort of traumatic experience, a loss, depressed, fearful, envious or whatever the case may be, but I can feel it.
It’s very hot and humid in Houston. Being in L.A. for 10 years, that kind of spoiled me a little bit, so every time I got back home, I’m like, ‘Damn it’s hot out here.’ But I love it.
I’ve been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn’t happen out here.
I’m kind of a builder of institutions. I think I’ve got some ability to look at what’s out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.
It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are.
MMA is a sport. We go out here and we do battle. Everybody has family, friends, they train really hard.
Nobody is thinking they’re going to come out here and put a team here and become a multimillionaire. I don’t know anybody that comes into the NFL like that.
Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it’s really big and brash and loud out here, and South by Southwest was the epitome of that.
I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.
As much as I’m enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.
You grow up as an artist in a big city. As James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don’t accept people’s sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless; I didn’t have any money, and I was living in my car. I was 18.
I’ve worked so hard, I’ve won a lot in my junior career, did great things in my amateur career, was 6-0 in match play in NCAAs, won NCAAs two years in a row, got third individually one year, and now I have three wins out here on the PGA Tour.
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I came out here with a thousand dollars to my name.
I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people’s music and that I’m just not out here on my own page.
Guys want to go out here and get the job done. Guys want to fight. We’re going to fight and grind every single pitch and try and do anything we can to help win games.
There’s a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I’ve enjoyed my ride.
I think it’s a little much to expect the organisation to solve the problem of racial parity. We do see a fast-increasing influx of Asians, black folks. I actually see black folks out here, unlike some of our liberal critics.
Playing defense out here against grown men is physical.
It’s a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see – and I’m thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.
I think he should let me run Ohio. He should let us, the legislature, the members there, we should be running Ohio. The states are the laboratories out here, and I think the president needs to mind to the problems that he has in Washington.
I just try to come out here, do my best, and try to help the team anyway I can.
For a while, I couldn’t get arrested in television because everybody thought of me as that guy on ‘Trapper John.’ So I thought, ‘Great, I’ll come out here to New York and do some theater, and when they get tired of me, I’ll do something else.’
When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I’m a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.
