Top 171 Bobby Quotes

I know there are a lot of tough stories out there about Sinatra, but he was so sweet to Bobby and me. He even had us replace him one night in the main room. He didn’t get Sammy or Dean; he said, ‘I want the kids to do it.’ Man, what an honor.

To be chosen Mr. Basketball, I couldnt believe it. To be honored with Ty Cobb, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey… its pretty mind boggling.

Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club.

People don’t see me in traditional roles; I’m not getting cast in the revival of ‘Company’ as Bobby.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

I’ve been obsessed with the Kennedys since I was a child, and Bobby Kennedy is, hands down, my favorite among them.

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

I would love to play Lee in ‘True West’ and Bobby in ‘Company.’

When I was traded from the Oakland A’s to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.

I didn’t want to be a rock and roller. I wanted to be a Bobby Darin because he was the epitome of the performer, the sophisticated.

I like Bobby Flay’s attitude and his approach towards food. I think he’s just passionate and very honest. I find him very honest about food and cooking and ingredients and I admire that because I think that it’s easy to get away from that for various reasons.

I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.

Being back with Impact wrestling, I couldn’t be happier for those guys, but from a professional and business side, it energises me so much to find the next AJ Styles, the next Bobby Roode, the next Samoa Joe.

When you are against a guy like a Bobby Lashley, you have to be smart because he can snap a leg in one second. I treat him with that respect.

I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, ‘Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,’ and I really didn’t want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, ‘Oh geez, it’s really anti-climatic.’

I’m a big fan of Bobby Roode and Chad Gable.

Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode – every time I get in the ring with those guys, it’s almost like magic.

After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits – all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic.

Barry Bonds was still young when his father’s fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.

The film I did with Bobby De Niro, ‘The King of Comedy’ – an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.

I like playful beats, xylophones, whimsical sounds of Bobby Johnson productions.

I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they hadn’t been assassinated.

What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It’s something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody’s presents – everybody’s – so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

I refuse to see losing as a negative. Obama lost in ’83 when he ran against Bobby Rush. Hillary lost in ’08. Even Lincoln lost the first election. It’s a useful learning experience.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.

Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, B.B. King.

Bobby Bones is a young country DJ who does a widely syndicated morning show. He’s at his best with his BobbyCast, in which he talks to Nashville up-and-comers such as Kelsea Ballerini and Lauren Alaina. Guests are encouraged to relax on Bones’s couch and talk about anything they like.

Bobby Heenan to me, he was the best. Of all the guys that have been managers that can pick up a microphone and talk, he was a natural and so good. His character like mine was so hated, it was like a little weasel.

Bobby Braddock is great.

Some people saw Bobby Kennedy as ruthless. I’m sure he did not see himself as ruthless.

My good friends call me Bobby.

I was truly inspired by a lot of Sensational Sherri and Bobby Heenan’s work.

We did ‘Jack & Bobby’ in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.

I really do like seeing Bobby Lashley get the torch and exactly seeing what he can do with it.

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We’re gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

Bobby Petrino, I think he’s an outstanding coach.

I didn’t know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

I turned 7 in 1973 and remember Bobby Riggs arriving at the Astrodome on a chariot pulled by showgirls before his ‘battle of the sexes’ tennis match against Billie Jean King.

I really like Bobby Jindal.

The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it’s partly due to Bobby Fischer – his rise to fame and then his descent into madness. That left a lot of people with negative stereotypes, of nerds who aren’t interesting.

I’m the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.

I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.

My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn’t want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn’t really say, ‘Well, B.o.B’s the old me, and Bobby Ray’s the new me.’ I had to just make a point.

As a kid, I didn’t know that ‘All in the Family’ was satirizing male chauvinism or that Bobby Riggs was a self-promoting put-on. Many of us didn’t get the irony and went on making fun of women and girls who wanted to play sports, especially the same sports that men and boys traditionally played.

The lesson of the Scott Walker, Rick Perry, and Bobby Jindal failures is simple: You can’t run a presidential campaign from the undercard stage.

From an early stage in my career, if you’re talking about picking up knowledge, it would have been via Ian Greaves who was involved in my success as a young player at Bolton. And working under managers such as Bobby Gould and George Graham helped me to expand my knowledge at bit more.

I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it’s the time when you’re playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr.

I’ve always been a fan of Bobby Roode’s.

Here are the five guys I learned the business from: Barry Windham, Ricky Steamboat, Arn Anderson, Larry Zbyszko, and Bobby Eaton. Those guys taught me how to do everything in the ring. I learned so much from each of them.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

Because – Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you’ll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

I have two best friends – the dancer and choreographer Bobby Newberry and my former bandmate Kimberley Wyatt.

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn’t either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny Weissmuller. I could also dream about being a great golfer like Bobby Jones or Byron Nelson. But the idea of being an Olympic golfer never occurred to me.