We’ve still got a cathode ray TV with a big back. An ancient, massive thing. All our teenagers’ friends come round and say the TV’s really cool. The picture is so much better than HD TVs – everything looks like film. It’s not digital, and we still haven’t got Netflix. It’s too confusing.
I went professional with my partner, Erin Boag, 11 years ago, and we had success competing round the world, but appearing on ‘Strictly’ has changed my life.
During a round, unless the crowd is quiet, which a lot of times it isn’t in my fights, you’re standing there and the coach yells, ‘One-two, one-two low kick.’ Whatever it is, you don’t really hear stuff. When you’re in a fight and leather is being traded, I mean, are you really going to hear your coach?
I experienced how Pep Guardiola worked every day. He had football on his mind round the clock: ‘What system does the opponent like to play? How do I want to set up my team, who do I want in which position?’
When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m miserable during Ramadan. Some would say I’m miserable all year round, but it does affect my mood.
We need to change America’s image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.
I’ve won an Olympic title and an U-20 World Cup, but it’d be really special to round things off with a Copa title with the seniors.
When I was younger, I was a little less focused and I liked to have a lot of fun. I’d come in and do a five-week camp or maybe a four-week camp and do a five round fight.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We don’t all have to understand complex theories, but we should have a working knowledge, like knowing your way round the engine of your car.
I don’t want to be one of those players who has a good career but couldn’t get out of the first round.
I used to dream about taking the ball ’round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet – when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
I’ve got loads of ideas swimming round, and I’ve even organised them in a nice folder on me computer.
If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can’t do that as easily on television – you’re in the hands of too many people.
This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I’m bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, ‘I can’t back down now,’ so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck.
My mother’s childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.
I have always been a puncher, but I tried to use my other tools and take my time, because in boxing, you need longevity. I can have a dust-up and knock anyone out in the first round, but you need more than that.
Writing about traumatic events in your life is actually much harder than being there the first time round because you have to relive all those moments and you know what the outcome is.
I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn’t keep to my game plan in the ’08 U.S. Women’s Open for the final round. That won’t happen again!
You never know what’s coming round the corner.
I’m not a dieter. I have the palate of a 7-year-old boy, although I’m working on it. I order off the kids’ menu! I’m working hard to eat more fruit and veggies and round it all out, but I’m a big pretzels and Diet Coke kind of girl.
Suddenly, at about ten o’clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.
I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose.
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.
Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I’d always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen.
Britain has always been a nation with a strong global focus. We have influenced change and built strong ties all round the world.
Any team can’t give top performance all year round.
When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different – and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.
I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.
I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person.
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there’s a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
My mother asks me what round I’d like to win in, and she prays for that.
If you look round the world, most teams want guys who can bowl up at 90 mph because they can make things happen when it isn’t doing much.
Supermarkets didn’t even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I’d been round the back. I’d seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.
I’ve been criticized my whole career. When I got drafted in the second round in the green room, they said I wouldn’t even make it in the N.B.A.
It’s never nice to lose 3-0 and have the ball knocked round you a bit towards the end.
So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.
My father was a great mentor to me and is someone I admire and look up to. However, it was my mum who was more of a driving force when it came to me and cricket – she constantly encouraged me to always remember to have fun when playing. And Mum was the one who took me round the grounds at the beginning of my career.
My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I’d go out back with the dog and bring them in.
If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
I haven’t played a full round of golf yet, but I did make two pars my first time out on a golf course.
My parents always wonder why I work round the clock and I never had an answer, until one day I came across a street full of Oyos. I saw so many families and friends on holiday there. This made me happy – life had come full circle in that moment!
I wanted to play Super 15. I wanted to develop some maturity, some leadership and to work on my skill set. Also I want to have played all round the world.
When you are in a competition, and there’s however many men competing alongside you, you do not get to determine when you go to lift… you don’t know how many guys will make it to the next round. You don’t know how long they’re going to take.
I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
However unattractive, pre-nups are at least a way round a law that dictates simply because you love someone and share their bed, that person has a claim on everything you own.
