Joseph Parker Quotes

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

I never in a million years would have thought I would end up with Golden State.

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

Just so you know: if this ever happens to you, you will not be ready.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.

Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

When the wart-hog looks up at the sky, it gets its throat slit.