Mark Kurlansky Quotes

Nobody's easy until after you beat them.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions.

I'm from the Caribbean, and I love the dance hall sound.

If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

That's what I admire the most of my mom, that's she's so tough.

I don't know a lot about my Jamaican heritage, so I relish any opportunity to learn about Caribbean culture.

A family holiday to Jamaica in 2004 - my uncle was getting married out there, and it was the first holiday I'd had in Jamaica, which is where my father is from. My friends and I stayed in a really plush hotel, The Ritz-Carlton, so we had a great experience.

A loss is something tough.

Whether it evokes pleasant memories of holidays in the Caribbean, or best-forgotten outings to Notting Hill, most of us have experienced jerk chicken in one form or another.

It is football. We need to be men, and it's not always possible to win.

Every loss, every defeat is tough in its own way.

The true Caribbean people… we are carnival people, we are vibrant people, not dead people. We like to be heard and we like to have fun.

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

I've always fought the best guys.

Defeat is tough.

Look what happened when I fought Anderson Silva. It can't possibly get worse than that. I've already seen the bottom and it wasn't that bad. I made it through. I survived. It's fighting. It's not the end of the world.

You have to experience and take defeat in any and all aspects of life so you can be better and stronger.

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

No one is easy until you actually beat them.

Victory lies in not getting defeated.