Roy Jones Jr. Quotes

We've all had someone break our hearts or have been fired from a job or have been cheated.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

A generation of children has been betrayed.

Disappointment! You speak to me of disappointment. To me, who was justly entitled to the Republican nomination for the presidency, and who had to stand aside and see it given to a little Illinois lawyer!

I have no respect for the prosecutors, the judges. And I say that not with malice in my heart. I say it because they took 30 years from me.

The better team sometimes loses.

I failed the most important people in my life, you know, on September 8, 2009. People who were relying on me more than anything.

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

What had seemed like love was betrayal

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

To have slaved so many years for nothing!

People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

He could not play the game without hope; could not play the game without a dream. They had taken it all away from him now, they had turned away from him and there was nothing for him now...He was alone and there was nothing for him.