I Quit Quotes - Page 4

• I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

  Tiger Woods

  Determination, Mean, Play

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• I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

  Toby Keith

  Girl, Fun, Drinking

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• I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

  Doc Watson

  And Love, Quitting, Music Love

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• I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

  Jonathan Hickman

  Book, Reading, Years

  "Newsarama's 9: Jonathan Hickman + Secret Warriors #1". Interview with Chris Arrant, www.newsarama.com. January 29, 2009.

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• I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

  Conor Maynard

  Piano, Lessons, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

  George Ella Lyon

  People, Maps, Quitting

  George Ella Lyon (2012). “Holding On to Zoe”, p.9, Macmillan

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• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  Little Richard

  Hate, Ice, Trying

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• I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

  Tom Petty

  Couple, Outlook On Life, Years

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• I just want to inspire all those people who gave up and said 'I quit,' Never give up!

  Gabby Douglas

  Giving Up, People, Inspire

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• My friend is an idiot. He smokes three packs of cigarettes a day. He won't quit, either. His big excuse is, "Why should I quit smoking? Anything could kill me. I could be walking down the street one day and i could be hit by a bus." Maybe if you quit smoking you could cross the street a hell of a lot faster.

  Gregg Rogell

  Smoking, One Day, Three

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• I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit.

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Regret, Decision, Emotion

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• I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio.

  Nina Dobrev

  Yoga, Gymnastics, Thinking

  "Nina Dobrev admits to having a burberry addiction" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 31, 2013.

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• When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Cutting, Hair

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• To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Ideas, Giving, Quitting

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.55, Zondervan

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• I quit because that thing inside of me that was driving me to drink that way was causing me so much pain that I was starting to get afraid for my own life, and my own health. It wasn't necessarily one instance. It was a lot that had piled up.

  Joe Manganiello

  Pain, Way, Driving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

  Wendell Pierce

  Jobs, Night, Next Day

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.

  Michael Gira

  Art, School, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.

  Michael Stipe

  Morning, Car, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.

  David Feherty

  Drinking, Games, Drunk

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• To say, “I've been converted and that's that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

  Steve Goodier

  Growing, Quitting, Life Is

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• I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Want, Saying Bad Things

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• You can try your passion for a while and see if it works and if it doesn't, at least you tried. I think that's why I quit my job and went back to acting. I said this is what I'm going to dedicate my life to doing because I didn't want to look up and say, "Man I wish I would have been an actor. I wish I would have tried."

  Jay Ellis

  Jobs, Passion, Men

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• Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.

  Nina Dobrev

  Hard Work, Gymnastics, Work Out

  "Nina Dobrev's New Chapter". Interview with Michael Pena, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.

  Slash

  Gun, Reality, Years

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, music.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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