Quotes by Jamaican authors
I have got a self-confidence that I have the ability but felt I was not being lucky and was an unlucky person.
Michail Antonio
Soccer player
Life is a results game. You turn up late for work four or five times, you get sacked. It's doing the right things and that's one thing I've learned about life. Everything is about results.
Michail Antonio
Soccer player
Everyone loves the Beatles, but if you really dig into their music, they were actually speaking on things. When you have such a following, you can influence all these people, not only older people, but the younger people. That's where the change starts.
Skip Marley
Jamaican singer.
Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.
Michael Lee-Chin
Jamaican-Canadian businessman
In a way, I don't feel I get the credit I deserve.
Liz Mitchell
Jamaican-British singer,
I'm quite ragged. People say 'raw,' and some people don't like raw. They prefer it neat and tidy but you can't be neat and tidy and also be leaping above people at the far stick to score goals.
Michail Antonio
Soccer player
As a child growing up, watching England, it was one of those things you always wanted to be involved in.
Michail Antonio
Soccer player
I don't want to just be a sports guy and that's it - I need to give back.
Leon Edwards
English professional mixed martial artist
I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.
Michael Lee-Chin
Jamaican-Canadian businessman
I'm really sorry, but I'm not prepared to jeopardize my life for the entertainment industry.
Lady Colin Campbell
Author
All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
Usain Bolt
Jamaican runner
If I'm on a date, I don't want to talk business right away. Let it feel like a date. I don't want to talk about my job right then.
Pepa
Jamaican-American rapper
I'm a kind person.
Lady Colin Campbell
Author
Bob was chosen by my record company to help with my vocals, and our relationship developed through the music.
Rita Marley
Cuban-Jamaican singer ‧ Bob Marley's wife
I'm in control of myself. I take yes or no from no one.
Burning Spear
Jamaican roots reggae singer-songwriter,
In my life, being true to myself certainly hasn't made things easier. You could never accuse me of taking the path of least resistance.
Lady Colin Campbell
Author
Ladies, you have to love yourself... you don't always have to have a man.
Pepa
Jamaican-American rapper
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
Marlon James
Jamaican writer
I think there's institutionalised racism in this country.
Linford Christie
Jamaican-born British former sprinter and athletics coach.
Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican activist
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