I think Ray Liotta in ‘Goodfellas’ is the best ever. Given that it was two hours, it was a little bit more theatrical, and I mean that in the most positive way.
I have a lot of respect for every opponent. I don’t know if there’s just one who I say, ‘that guy intimidates me.’ When I was young and first came into the league, Ray Lewis was that guy. I was young.
Obviously, Ray Allen is a huge threat, Eddie House coming off the bench is a huge threat, as far as three-pointers go.
I study Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr and Sugar Ray Leonard.
Ray Charles, in his own way, it’s like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
Ray Lewis, the greatest player ever, has been hurt a couple of times, but he has always come back strong.
I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
I like jokes, but Ray and I, we never did jokes. We weren’t in that line of humor. We each contributed our own kind of observations. I’m glad to have people look at and laugh at and respect and get some creative juice out of what we did by observing.
When I lost to Ray Mercer, I was young. I deserved to lose that fight because I hadn’t learned how to cover all the angles in preparation. I was immature.
At the end of the day, it is about taking care of your family. Going out and doing the job like Stevie Ray would say, to the best of your ability until something better comes along. I say that because it’s very simple; we are all in the entertainment business.
I’d like to team up with somebody like Willie Nelson or Ray Benson.
The three toughest fighters I fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson.
Who isn’t a fan of Ray Charles?
I’d love to be in a period drama, though my dream role is to be in a film with Ray Winstone and Tom Hardy.
Satyajit Ray has played a very major part in my career. He was the one who gave me the launch platform when he selected me for his ‘Apur Sansar.’
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.
When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.
Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living.
I don’t care about losing. How many times did Michael Jordan lose before he won his first championship? It wasn’t about the number of losses with Sugar Ray Leonard or Tommy Hearns.
I grew up in rural Missouri about two hours north of St. Louis, and if the wind was blowing right on a Saturday night, I could catch All Star Wrestling out of Kansas City, which was run by Bob Geigel, and some of the stars there were Bulldog Bob Brower and Ray Candy.
I grew up listening to the greats of the ’80s and, thanks to my parents, the ’70s – the Doobie Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie.
I know one thing: Ray Mercer is not going down from a head punch. I think he’s got one of the best chins in the game.
If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
There are hundreds of young fighters whose handlers believe them to be a future world champion or the next great heavyweight or another Sugar Ray Robinson. The young men who inspire these beliefs are known as ‘prospects.’
My father, Inder Raj Anand – a famous writer in his own right – was a great friend of Satyajit Ray.
Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.
Ray Sefo is a former K-1 guy that I’ve always respected. He knows how to take care of athletes.
Ray Bradbury’s connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
Once Ray was a Ewing, all the problems were solved.
When ‘Nil By Mouth’ was released, people thought that’s what we were actually like, that they’d put me and Ray in front of the cameras and filmed what came out. No acting involved.
Ray Santos is one of my personal heroes. I model my life on people like him.
Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night.
I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I’ve gotten older, my influences have broadened – John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles – all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.
At a very young age, when I was a baby, I used to mimic all of these movies, like ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Ray,’ the type of movies you wouldn’t think a little kid would know. But my parents thought I was great.
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with ‘Georgia on My Mind.’
Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He’s not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was very determined, very focused, very outgoing and very selfish, if you will. There are two different individuals there.
Is Duran’s ‘No Mas’ a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
The first artist I really loved was Stevie Wonder. That opened the doors to other soul singers like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin.
I loved being on the set of ‘Field of Dreams’ because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
I would have loved to work with Satyajit Ray.
I don’t consider myself a food person. I’m no Bobby Flay. I’m no Emeril or Paula Deen, and I’m certainly not Rachael Ray.
I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.
I’m a big country fan. I remember, as a kid, when Ray Charles did the ‘Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music’ record. That’s one of the reasons I became a country fan.
I used to sit for hours and copy every lick on those early AC/DC and Kiss records. From there, I went on to Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. After a while, you kind of develop your own style.
I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are – I’m not that familiar with their work – I just want to say, there’s always next year – except, you know, for Ray Romano .
Ray Kroc called his first McDonald’s restaurant, which he opened in Illinois, ‘a little money machine.’ That’s why thousands of franchisees bought it.
Right around 2004 when ‘Ray’ came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, ‘After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.’
If I could perform on stage with any musical act or performer, it would be Sugar Ray, just to fulfill my childhood dream of singing with Mark McGrath.
Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.
I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.
But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.
I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and the like. But our generation, the artists were stronger. You’re talking about myself, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops.
It was really inspiring to be in West London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in Mark Lebon’s Crunch Studios, where I met people like Ray Petri, Neneh Cherry, Judy Blame, Nick and Barry Kamen, Zoe Bedeaux, and Venetia Scott.
I don’t think I’ve met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.
You can’t be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place.
When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.
