“You know, you really can’t beat a household commodity – the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.”
― Adlai Stevenson I
“The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.”
― Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
“Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn’t hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.”
― Al Lopez
“I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.”
― Al Oerter
“Bobby Charlton’s record was quite substantial. I couldn’t think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.”
― Alex Ferguson
“To beat City twice is no easy feat.”
― Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
“Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn’t missed a beat.”
― Alex Van Halen
“It is cliched, but you have to beat the best to be the best.”
― Ali Krieger
“The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There’s this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.”
― Allen Ginsberg
“I grew up watching stuff with Jim Carey, Robin Williams and Sandra Bullock in them. I’ve always been attracted to the actors who are a little more off beat.”
― Amanda Crew
“When it comes to designer, you can’t beat Victoria Beckham. I love her stuff.”
― Amy Childs
“The guys that I beat in the ‘Super Six,’ every one of those fights was tough, even if I did dominate some.”
― Andre Ward
“I was surprised at how slow Froch was. We were able to beat him to the punch.”
― Andre Ward
“I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.”
― Andy Mineo
“You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.”
― Andy Murray
“In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they’re working on. They work collaboratively.”
― Andy Serkis
“I used to wear so much makeup and be beat, and that would get me clocked, so then I’d wear less makeup.”
― Angelica Ross
“I knew that I have the game to beat the best players.”
― Angelique Kerber
“I like shows or films or books that have messages but don’t beat people over the head with them.”
― Anna Paquin
“Iowa is especially critical for underdog and cash-strapped campaigns, because the caucus system relies on grassroots organizing, enabling candidates with time for retail politicking to beat better-funded rivals. So underdogs usually seize on the state.”
― Ari Melber
“I beat a brain tumor.”
― Arlen Specter
“The SoCal weather can’t be beat, but I just haven’t quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.”
― Ashley Wagner
“I am not the one who has to try to beat me.”
― Ashton Eaton
“Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.”
― Austin O’Malley
“I started by producing, and the rapping came second to that, because I wanted to fill out the beat.”
― Awkwafina
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
― Babe Ruth
“You can’t beat the Cotton Bowl. There’s nothing like that.”
― Baker Mayfield
“Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn’t matter how good you are.”
― Barry Bonds
“I got beat up sometimes in the girls’ bathroom.”
― Becky G
“I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.”
― Bella Abzug
“I speak plainly, I don’t beat around the bush, and I’m just genuine.”
― Ben Askren
“You know what, the thing about Bellator was, I beat everyone they had.”
― Ben Askren
“Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.”
― Ben Stein
“And that’s why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.”
― Berkeley Breathed
“I’ve got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!”
― Bert Kalmar
“The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, ‘We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.’”
― Bill Mazeroski
“It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.”
― Bill Schuette
“There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.”
― Bill Shoemaker
“I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.”
― Billy Joel
“People beat around the bush so much, and I try to be really blunt in my music.”
― Blackbear
“Nobody’s gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.”
― Blake Shelton
“I had to get beat to understand how to win.”
― Bob Beamon
“I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.”
― Bob Feller
“There isn’t a woman player in the world I can’t give knights-odds to and still beat.”
― Bobby Fischer
“I learned at an early stage that the most important thing I could do for my players was to give them the tools necessary to beat their opponent.”
― Bobby Knight
“People said I was tanking, but Billie Jean beat me fair and square.”
― Bobby Riggs
“As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.”
― Bobby Wallace
“It’s not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.”
― Bode Miller
“If I got Corey Graves into a fisticuffs, I would beat him down like he stole something.”
― Booker T
“Don’t tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.”
― Boozoo Chavis
“I beat some of the best of the best, and I’ve lost to some of the best of the best.”
― Brendan Schaub
“Bret ‘the Hitman’ Hart from circa, say, 1997, the U.S.-bashing Bret Hart, would have to lay a beat down on John Cena, I think.”
― Bret Hart
“I’m not a fighter. I don’t like to get beat up.”
― Brett Gelman
“Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the ‘no’ – and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the ‘no.’”
― Brian Grazer
“If you are going to be a starter in the NFL or a major-college program, you are going to have to beat out other great quarterbacks.”
― Brock Osweiler
“I really dig the scene that’s happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow… you can’t beat that.”
― Bruce Johnston
“In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material.”
― Bruce McCulloch
“Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there’s ways to beat it.”
― Calvin Johnson
“I will fight ‘GGG,’ and I will beat ‘GGG,’ but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.”
― Canelo Alvarez
“Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.”
― Cara Castronuova
“Charlotte Flair – she took my title from me. I did beat her twice; however, she beat me and took my title from me, unfortunately. But I’m gonna get it back.”
― Carmella
“I beat Charlotte Flair. And now, it’s time to party.”
― Carmella
“Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that’s smaller than you and you beat them, where’s the honor in that?”
― Carol Moseley Braun
“The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.”
― Caroline Ghosn
“I’d like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I’m like a teenager. I’d have ‘Teen Beat’ if I could, for grown-ups.”
― Caroline Rhea
“But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.”
― Casey Kasem
“Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they’re getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you’ve got a hit.”
― Casey Kasem
“If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you’ve got a hit.”
― Casey Kasem
“I get beat up on every project.”
― Casper Van Dien
“The devil I know is the establishment, and I’m gonna beat that devil.”
― Cenk Uygur
“I can beat anybody on any given day, and I don’t compromise.”
― Cesaro
“I think I can beat any man.”
― Chael Sonnen
“The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.”
― Charles Boustany
“I’m tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.”
― Charlie Sheen
“If you give him a 3-point shot, you might as well count it. I’d rather have Steph Curry beat me 14 points and 14 assists than let him get 40. Because his 40 is just so loud. And it’s because of those 3s.”
― Chauncey Billups
“Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus – especially Arnie – he used to beat my brains out when we were young. In the end, I got even. I started beating him up. And that felt really good.”
― Chi Chi Rodriguez
“I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.”
― Chloe Grace Moretz
“I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It’s a sport, competition, so I’m used to it.”
― Chris Bell
“I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.”
― Chris Brown
“Anyone can beat anyone in the Premier League.”
― Christian Eriksen
“You can’t get in the top four if you can’t beat the clubs who are in the top four.”
― Christian Eriksen
“I don’t have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.”
― Christina Aguilera
“Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.”
― Chubby Checker
“I thought I could beat anyone in the world.”
― Chuck Liddell
“The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.”
― Ciputra
“You can’t beat a cop drama. That’s what everybody seems to want to watch.”
― Clark Johnson
“No one wants to get beat up in front of the world.”
― CM Punk
“There’s no one in the division that can beat me; not even the champion can beat me.”
― Colby Covington
“I’ve always been a huge John Guare fan. But Edward Albee – he just can’t be beat.”
― Colin Donnell
“You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.”
― Conor McGregor
“I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.”
― Coolio
“Photorealism’s goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can’t beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.”
― Damian Loeb
“Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.”
― Dan Quayle
“I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.”
― Daniel Cormier
“I think after I beat Ryan Bader, he should have to go get beat up by Anthony Johnson for being so disrespectful to Anthony Johnson.”
― Daniel Cormier
“Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.”
― Daniel Kahneman
“I don’t mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn’t feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.”
― Dave Eggers
“What we have seen with Islamist extremism, whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan, is that the disease is not necessarily the individual country. The disease is the Islamist extremism, and that’s what we have to fight; that’s the narrative that we have to beat.”
― David Cameron
“Quentin Tarantino doesn’t beat Hal Ashby, and he’s one of my favorite directors. Quentin is incredible.”
― David Carradine
“When I was in Japan, everyone wanted to work for Pierre Gagnaire, and they wouldn’t miss a beat.”
― David Chang
“To beat Wladimir Klitschko, I have to be better than I’ve ever been.”
― David Haye
“The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.”
― David Johansen
“Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.”
― David Mamet
“My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.”
― David Mamet
“Apes beat their chests so they don’t have to fight 24 hours a day.”
― David Milch
“’Super Contra’ was the game I fell in love with. I played and beat that game with my mom.”
― Demetrious Johnson
“Vicente Fox beat the PRI by gambling on a simple formula: Marketing + Money = Presidency.”
― Denise Dresser
“My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.”
― Dennis Wilson
“When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.”
― Dick Dale
“I’m chasing belts. I’m highly ranked, and after I beat Chisora, I should be No. 1 with at least four of the governing bodies.”
― Dillian Whyte
“Bring the fights on. If I’m going to be the champ, I gotta beat everyone anyway, so what does sitting and waiting and holding my position do?”
― Donald Cerrone
“You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.”
― Donovan Bailey
“I absorbed the vinyl of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jack Elliott, to Michael McClure and then into the Beat poets, Allen Ginsberg. At campus, we were absorbing that stuff. We looked to America.”
― Donovan
“Let’s learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.”
― Doug Ducey
“The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them.”
― Drew Carey
“Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.”
― Duane G. Carey
“What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.”
― Eazy-E
“I beat Gilbert Melendez, and he got two shots at the title.”
― Eddie Alvarez
“Regardless of the magnitude, the crowd, or the pay-per-view sales, the goal is to beat the guy in front of me.”
― Eddie Alvarez
“The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.”
― Eden Hazard
“You need to beat a defender when you have the ball. You need to be able to successfully pass to a team-mate, and there are other attributes needed to be the complete player.”
― Edgar Davids
“One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.”
― Edwin Moses
“Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.”
― Elizabeth Bibesco
“Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.”
― Elizabeth Warren
“Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.”
― Elliott Abrams
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
― Emo Philips
“I haven’t seen one guy beat five people yet. It needs to be done collectively.”
― Eric Snow
“Shawn Porter is a good fighter, but he hasn’t accomplished nearly as much as Danny Garcia has accomplished or beat the fighters who he has beat.”
― Errol Spence Jr.
“No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.”
― Ethel Waters
“The proposition is that prices reflect all available information, which in simple terms means since prices reflect all available information, there’s no way to beat the market.”
― Eugene Fama
“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”
― Euripides
“I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.”
― Fairuza Balk
“Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.”
― Flavor Flav
“I’m not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.”
― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“You name him. I beat him.”
― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“I love Dilla, and who knows where this beat thing would be without him.”
― Flying Lotus
“Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.”
― Fran Lebowitz
“The best times I’ve ever had and the greatest lessons I’ve ever learned were when my feet were out over the edge of the line, and I was at risk of getting a little beat up, physically and emotionally.”
― Frankie Ballard
“I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.”
― Fred Durst
“I’ve never listened to an album once I’ve finished it. All I hear is what I should’ve done different. I beat myself up over it.”
― Gary Allan
“The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It’s in the blood.”
― Gary Vaynerchuk
“We beat Nazis in an hour and a half with less money than it took to build the Obamacare website.”
― Gavin McInnes
“The most realistic blood I’ve seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.”
― George A. Romero
“Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.”
― George Best
“If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”
― George Carlin
“We’re picking on people we can beat.”
― George Clooney
“America can’t beat anyone anymore.”
― George Clooney
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― George Herman
“The ‘Can It Be’ beat was sick!”
― Ghostface Killah
“I’m versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that’s just what it do.”
― Ghostface Killah
“I’m inspired by anyone who’s honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.”
― Gillian Zinser
“When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.”
― Glenn Danzig
“I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.”
― Groucho Marx
“When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.”
― Gwyneth Paltrow
“Some MCs don’t take the time to take a beat home or just vibe with it and just figure out, ‘How do I attack this track?’”
― Gza
“I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that’s physical, that’s about a beat and bass and repetition.”
― Harmony Korine
“When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.”
― Harry Triguboff
“With Arsene, he wanted us to play in the same way regardless of the opponents. The idea was that we could play in our way and beat anyone.”
― Hector Bellerin
“I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.”
― Henny Youngman
“I fear that the hearts of the vast majority of mankind would beat on strongly and steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether.”
― Henry Cabot Lodge
“To beat Henry Cejudo, you might have to bring an AK-47 and a couple dudes.”
― Henry Cejudo
“I’m the one. I know I’m the one. I have the style, I have the wrestling. I know I’m the one to beat Demetrious Johnson.”
― Henry Cejudo
“I think I have all tools in the world to beat anybody at 125 pounds. I really do.”
― Henry Cejudo
“I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.”
― Herbert Lom
“If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.”
― Herschel Walker
“I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.”
― Herschel Walker
“I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can’t beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.”
― Howard Dean
“A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.”
― Ilya Ilyin
“I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.”
― Imelda May
“On ‘Sid & Nancy,’ it was originally this atonal kind of beat that you hear in the verses, like an atonal dance track.”
― Isom Innis
“I don’t try to make one thing. I really try to experiment, even if its just the vocals or the beat. I can’t really describe my sound.”
― J.I.D
“Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.”
― Jack Ramsay
“If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it’s hard to beat bread and butter.”
― Jacques Pepin
“The Internet won’t skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving.”
― Jake Paul
“I felt like I couldn’t wallow in self-pity forever. I can’t beat myself up forever.”
― James Arthur
“I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google’s ‘two-step’ authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.”
― James Fallows
“’Somebody’s Calling Me’ was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.”
― James Murphy
“We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
― James Nicoll
“There’s nothing I’ve ever worked on that beat ‘Game of Thrones’ – that’s a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.”
― Jason Momoa
“I don’t like to get beat in anything!”
― Jeff Gordon
“Chicken parm is hard to beat.”
― Jeff Van Gundy
“We’re here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.”
― Jerry Moss
“I hadn’t realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.”
― Jessica Savitch
“I am Jim Gray, and I am the guy who is going to beat Rand Paul.”
― Jim Gray
“Even if you’re ill, physical activity at a lower level will help you beat it.”
― Jim Loehr
“When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren’t accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat.”
― Jimmy Cliff
“The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win.”
― Jimmy Haynes
“The older I’ve got, the easier I’ve found it to accept myself. I think I’ve finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.”
― Jimmy Nail
“I beat Randy Orton, one of the all-time greats, you know. Why can’t I beat a Brock Lesnar?”
― Jinder Mahal
“Why can’t I beat AJ Styles? I beat AJ Styles in the past before.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Comedy is a very rough beat. It’s no holds barred, as it should be.”
― Joan Rivers
“I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.”
― Joe Cocker
“Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times… we all had to deal with the Raiders.”
― Joe Greene
“Every man’s got to figure to get beat sometime.”
― Joe Louis
“I was different. I got beat up every day.”
― Joe Morton
“It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.”
― Joe Torre
“We’ve beat up our umpires. They’re now allowed to be human.”
― Joe Torre
“I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.”
― Joel Coen
“Italians can not beat us, but we can certainly lose against them.”
― Johan Cruyff
“We won’t enshrine the Tories’ policies in Scotland. We won’t run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.”
― Johann Lamont
“It’s a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.”
― John Bercow
“I could have beat Obama.”
― John Catsimatidis
“I was always a sports nut but I’ve lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.”
― John Cleese
“I can’t beat guys consistently playing like I’m 5-foot-10.”
― John Isner
“If you’re playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.”
― John Kruk
“If I beat Carlos Condit, nobody’s in my way.”
― Johny Hendricks
“I hate losing. I hate getting beat. I’m not used to it.”
― Jon Lester
“I beat ‘Super Mario Bros 1,’ ‘2,’ and ‘3.’”
― Jonathan Groff
“Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language’s own means.”
― Joseph Brodsky
“I didn’t make the Olympics, but I beat a lot of the guys that went to the Olympics, so I felt I was at that level even though I didn’t make it.”
― Joseph Parker
“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”
― Josh Billings
“I got beat up my whole life.”
― Julian Edelman
“As an actress we don’t beat one another. It’s whoever’s right for the part.”
― Juliette Binoche
“My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“If you believe in yourself, you can beat anyone.”
― Karolina Pliskova
“Serena is tough to beat; to get over her in the rankings is hard.”
― Karolina Pliskova
“You don’t not want to beat somebody because you’re friends with them.”
― Katarina Johnson-Thompson
“What I’ve learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.”
― Kate Winslet
“I’m the one that everyone is trying to beat.”
― Katie Taylor
“It’s a truth of beat reporting: The bigger your subject gets, the bigger you get.”
― Katy Tur
“When I make a good beat, I’m possessed. I’m not on earth!”
― Kaytranada
“Where I’m from, they’ll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.”
― Kel Mitchell
“That’s why I liked judo so much right from the start – I got to beat up all the boys.”
― Kelita Zupancic
“A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.”
― Ken Burns
“I started out with Buzz Sawyer in Sacramento. He had me shoot on guys and beat them up. They tossed me a few bones here and there. But, after Buzz passed away, I started seeking training elsewhere.”
― Ken Shamrock
“When the economies of emerging markets don’t just grow but beat expectations, there’s scarcely a mention.”
― Kenneth Fisher
“One of my most popular songs, ‘Satellites,’ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.”
― Kevin Gates
“I’ve been a top guy since I walked in – since I beat John Cena in my first match.”
― Kevin Owens
“Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think it’s a wonderful thing.”
― Kevin Spacey
“You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out.”
― Khabib Nurmagomedov
“I wouldn’t do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.”
― Kip Winger
“I write poetry, and I put it to a beat – I mean, that’s what they call rap.”
― Lakeith Stanfield
“In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.”
― Lando Norris
“I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.”
― Lando Norris
“Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.”
― Lando Norris
“Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.”
― Larry Holmes
“Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.”
― Laura Moser
“How can they beat me? I’ve been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.”
― Lee Trevino
“As long as I’ve got a chance to beat you I’m going to take it.”
― Leo Durocher
“Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don’t even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.”
― Leo Durocher
“I wrote my first song, ‘Conversion’, to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.”
― Leon Bridges
“Everybody knows anything can happen in the Premier League: every team can beat every team.”
― Leroy Sane
“When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.”
― Lily James
“I have never considered any player as my competitor; each one of them is good and talented, and my job is to beat them.”
― Lin Dan
“Dan Donovan was the district attorney at one point who could not indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo, who choked Eric Garner on video, for the whole country to watch, for the whole world to watch. And he actually, immediately after that, won a seat in Congress. He beat a Democrat to get into Congress.”
― Linda Sarsour
“You can’t beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.”
― Lou Reed
“You can’t beat two guitars, bass, and drums.”
― Lou Reed
“I’ve been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.”
― Louis Navellier
“In college, I was told the market can’t be beat.”
― Louis Navellier
“I’m from Berkeley, California, so I’m fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can’t beat them, so we might as well index.”
― Louis Navellier
“Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.”
― Louis Navellier
“I moved to Liverpool in 2012, and they were really ambitious, bringing in top players. In 2013, we beat Arsenal – who seemed invincible – 4-0. It was the shock of the century.”
― Lucy Bronze
“’Despacito’ started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote the lyrics, which I wrote as if I was writing a ballad.”
― Luis Fonsi
“Sometimes I can wake up and I can beat anyone.”
― Lukas Rosol
“I used to get beat up by my brothers, and that kind of built me into the man I am.”
― Luke Rockhold
“I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.”
― Lynn Davies
“Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.”
― Maajid Nawaz
“I was never just a ‘fill in 16 bars on a beat’ rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.”
― Mac Miller
“’Cruise Control’ was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.”
― Mac Miller
“That’s how I am – I don’t like games, and I don’t beat around the bush.”
― Maia Mitchell
“If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I’d do a regular job.”
― Manny Montana
“I resist lists. It must be all those ‘Most Important’ and ‘Best of the Year’ ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.”
― Margo Jefferson
“I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you’re giving up that makes you resentful.”
― Marissa Mayer
“If I ran as a Dem, I know I could beat Hillary Clinton. And if it was me vs. Trump, I would crush him. No doubt about it.”
― Mark Cuban
“The Undertaker’s theme isn’t really a single, but in terms of eerie music, you can’t beat it.”
― Mark Henry
“If you want to be the champ, you’ve got to beat the champ.”
― Mark Hunt
“It’s a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.”
― Martin Henderson
“I didn’t have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.”
― Martina Hingis
“Now that I beat Lindsay I feel much better.”
― Martina Hingis
“I’m sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.”
― Mary Gauthier
“I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.”
― Mary J. Blige
“I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.”
― Mary-Kate Olsen
“I’m pretty sure I could beat Tyron Woodley. Nothing against him.”
― Matt Riddle
“Many Americans don’t mourn in public anymore – we don’t wear black, we don’t beat our chests and wail.”
― Meghan O’Rourke
“You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.”
― Mehdi Hasan
“If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.”
― Mel Brooks
“I’m not going to opine as to whether I think a particular candidate can beat Donald Trump or not.”
― Michael Avenatti
“I beat Anderson Silva and then Luke Rockhold, who was, pound-for-pound, one of the best. Now I get to do Dan Henderson, who is a legend in the sport.”
― Michael Bisping
“I’m in a sport where, on their day, anyone can beat anyone else if they are at the top of their own game.”
― Michael Bisping
“When I was at a newspaper, I knew what an opportunity that was, and I religiously protected my time on the cop beat.”
― Michael Connelly
“The only one who can beat me is me.”
― Michael Johnson
“I’m going to beat this cancer or die trying.”
― Michael Landon
“Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.”
― Michael Lewis
“My goal is to beat you whether you’re clean or dirty.”
― Michelle Carter
“I never focus on trying to beat somebody.”
― Michelle Carter
“I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.”
― Mickey Rourke
“Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he’ll beat the crap out of you.”
― Mickey Spillane
“And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California.”
― Mike Curb
“I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.”
― Mike Weir
“He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.”
― Miles Davis
“I want to beat all the opponents who have beaten me before.”
― Mirko Cro Cop
“There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.”
― Muhammad Ali
“I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”
― Muhammad Ali
“The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.”
― Muhammadu Buhari
“A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.”
― Murray Kempton
“With me and YG, he could rap a hook, and I could make a beat around it. Ten minutes, we done.”
― Mustard
“There isn’t a featherweight who can beat me.”
― Naseem Hamed
“My idol, Muhammad Ali, got beat when nobody thought he would, and he came back and back to beat Joe Frazier.”
― Naseem Hamed
“I know there is not a featherweight out there who I couldn’t beat.”
― Naseem Hamed
“Great fighters get beat, and great fighters come back.”
― Naseem Hamed
“If anybody’s getting a shot, somebody’s getting a shot against me because I’m the guy to beat.”
― Nate Diaz
“’The Dark Knight Rises’ does not beat ‘The Avengers. ‘ The reason? It is a totally different kind of movie – to compare them is an empty exercise.”
― Neal Adams
“You have to consider, I’m a full-time professional wrestler, and Stephen Amell is a celebrity, and yet we still managed to beat two full-time professional wrestlers.”
― Neville
“The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.”
― Newt Gingrich
“I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.”
― Nina Simone
“I’m the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony’s PlayStation 3.”
― Nolan Bushnell
“I didn’t beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.”
― O. J. Simpson
“There’s show and there’s business. Business is a whole other beat.”
― Omar Epps
“I’m part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.”
― Oona Chaplin
“I want to beat everyone I’m playing against.”
― P. V. Sindhu
“I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.”
― Pat Mastelotto
“My knees have just gotten to the point where they just get beat up.”
― Pat McAfee
“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.”
― Patton Oswalt
“Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.”
― Paul Feig
“To beat opposing teams, you have to attack, and to attack, you have to take risks.”
― Paul Scholes
“I have the experience to beat Hatton. I’ve been on the big stage.”
― Paulie Malignaggi
“He’s a guy I should beat pretty handily. I shouldn’t have a competitive fight with Jose Miguel Cotto, in my eyes.”
― Paulie Malignaggi
“You can’t beat The Beatles, you join ’em.”
― Peggy Lee
“Everybody really can beat everyone from the top, so it’s really difficult to stay on the top.”
― Petra Kvitova
“Serena is one of the players you can really beat, but not every day.”
― Petra Kvitova
“Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.”
― Philip Guedalla
“Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.”
― Philip Guedalla
“I like hats that make the heart beat faster.”
― Philip Treacy
“I’m a sucker for two things: Adam Lambert and songs that start out as emo as a sad episode of ‘Felicity’ and then drop. That. Beat.”
― Phoebe Robinson
“I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.”
― Pinetop Perkins
“Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to bring our social indicators on par with developed countries.”
― Piyush Goyal
“It’s all about the flow and the beat. Rap is more than just music now.”
― Playboi Carti
“Having brothers – I love that. They don’t take any rubbish, and they beat you up if you’ve been misbehaving.”
― Rachael Stirling
“We’ve got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it’s the only place it’s played in the world.”
― Rachel Griffiths
“I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.”
― Rachel Platten
“We go to the banya, the Russian spa. And you go into the sauna, which is really hot, much hotter than a normal sauna, and then they beat you with branches.”
― Rachel Riley
“I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.”
― Ralph Bunche
“We don’t beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.”
― Randy Pausch
“I’m trained in musical theatre and ‘Pitch Perfect’ is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.”
― Rebel Wilson
“I don’t think you can beat a costumed monster. It’s brilliant. I’ll take that over CGI any day.”
― Rhys Darby
“In order to be the man, you have to beat the man.”
― Ric Flair
“To be the man, you gotta beat the man!”
― Ric Flair
“I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.”
― Richard Ford
“Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.”
― Richard Krajicek
“I’m very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.”
― Rick Mercer
“It’s a little bit of a ‘if you can’t beat ’em – join ’em’ mentality for me when I think about Twitter.”
― Rob Lowe
“Honestly, you could beat me, torture me – just don’t bore me.”
― Rob Riggle
“You can’t beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.”
― Rob Sheffield
“With experience also comes the understanding that you have to beat the rally before you can beat the competition.”
― Robby Gordon
“Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.”
― Robert Moog
“Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.”
― Ron Paul
“I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.”
― Ron White
“Nobody’s easy until after you beat them.”
― Ronda Rousey
“You don’t have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.”
― Ross Perot
“I’m an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.”
― Roy Harper
“On any given day, I know on any given day I can beat anyone else and knock out anyone else out.”
― Roy Nelson
“I think Lesnar could probably beat Fedor, just from pure size.”
― Roy Nelson
“A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.”
― Roy Nelson
“I dance to the beat of a different drummer.”
― RuPaul
“That’s the thing: I’m not opposed to working with people. I’m just not one of these people that feels the need to hop around the industry and get this guy’s beat and get this guy’s hook.”
― Russ
“I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.”
― Russell Wilson
“Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that’s why growth hackers beat traditional marketers.”
― Ryan Holiday
“I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.”
― Ryan Sheckler
“We are Liverpool, we are strong, and we can beat any team in the world.”
― Sadio Mane
“I have been in the ring with Kevin Owens for about 12 years; I’m used to getting beat up.”
― Sami Zayn
“I’ve been beat up pretty badly back in my day.”
― Sami Zayn
“I go by the rule of Gretzky: you gotta be there before the puck gets there, or you’re going to get beat.”
― Scott Borchetta
“You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we’re going to keep fighting and figuring out ways to beat them.”
― Scott Brooks
“No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I’ve never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.”
― Scott Pelley
“I get paid to beat people up, which is the greatest job in the world.”
― Scott Steiner
“Because I’ve been around the MMA block a little bit, I’m at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I’m past the point in my career where I’m picking and choosing.”
― Shayna Baszler
“Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.”
― Shirley Manson
“Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.”
― Sid Waddell
“In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.”
― Sophocles
“LeBron James and Dwyane Wade don’t just beat you, they snatch your heart.”
― Stephen A. Smith
“I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on ‘Beat It.’”
― Steve Lukather
“Whether you’re a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you’re a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you’ve got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.”
― Steve Mariucci
“Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.”
― Steve Prefontaine
“If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.”
― Steve Prefontaine
“I’m a fan myself and I’m frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.”
― Steven Gerrard
“Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.”
― Steven Gerrard
“I’ve fought the best guys in the world, and I’ve beat the best guys in the world.”
― Stipe Miocic
“Music-wise, I like anything with a beat to it. With walkout songs, I pick something to keep me going and to rile me up.”
― Stipe Miocic
“No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran.”
― Sugar Ray Leonard
“I’ll hear a beat and think, ‘How can I make this a banger?’ I’ll write the lyrics on my phone or on a piece of paper, and either way, it’s going to be a slapper.”
― Swae Lee
“I was 16 when I recorded ‘Flashlight.’ I produced it, made the beat, wrote it, recorded it.”
― Syd
“That’s what hip-hop is: It’s sociology and English put to a beat, you know.”
― Talib Kweli
“I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn’t a good idea.”
― Ted Lindsay
“Just being able to be around your kid, I don’t think anything can beat that.”
― Terry Rozier
“I was the first Indian to take on and beat the best in professional wrestling, but I certainly don’t want to be the last.”
― The Great Khali
“I’m aware if I’m playing at my best I’m tough to beat. And I enjoy that.”
― Tiger Woods
“What he’s done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It’s beautifully realised – it’s a beat film.”
― Tilda Swinton
“When you’re small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.”
― Tim Conway
“I went through UFC with five title defenses. Jonny ‘Bones’ Jones beat my record, so I’m trying to beat his record. That’s my goal. That’s what I want to do.”
― Tito Ortiz
“A lot of guys who I fought, they beat guys who were No. 1 contenders, and that’s why I fought them.”
― Tito Ortiz
“Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn’t beat us.”
― Tom Clancy
“I will beat Andre Ward. I will knock out Andre Ward. He’s a pound-for-pound king, but I will beat him.”
― Tony Bellew
“Stylistically, Tommy Hearns is much better than Marvin Hagler – his technique and punching were better – but he just couldn’t do it. He couldn’t beat Marvin Hagler, and it’s because styles make fights.”
― Tony Bellew
“I was hoping David Haye would beat the fight out of me in the second fight.”
― Tony Bellew
“Do I beat a fully fledged, fully fit Tyson Fury? Probably not. But do I beat a Tyson Fury that’s been out of the ring for two years? Yes.”
― Tony Bellew
“I’m attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.”
― Travis Scott
“You’ve got to beat the best if you want to be the best.”
― Trent Alexander-Arnold
“To beat City twice is no easy feat.”
― Trent Alexander-Arnold
“When it comes to making a song, whatever the beat tells me to do, I do.”
― Ty Dolla Sign
“I’m the person that’s been that young, spunky kid that wanted to beat the top guys.”
― Tyron Woodley
“I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that’s what I’m taking.”
― Tyron Woodley
“The longer you stay out of this sport, the less sharp you are, and I’ve been aware of that; that’s why I’ve stayed and haven’t wanted to retire and come back – because you skip a beat.”
― Urijah Faber
“You can get beat any day.”
― Usain Bolt
“Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.”
― Van Morrison
“If you have your eye set on somebody, don’t beat around the bush.”
― Vanessa Hudgens
“Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?”
― Verne Troyer
“Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.”
― Walker Hayes
“It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch… and then we’d beat them up as well.”
― Wayne Coyne
“Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.”
― William S. Burroughs
“’In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,’ Afghans often told me. ‘In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we’ll beat the Americans!’”
― William T. Vollmann
“It’s hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.”
― Yotam Ottolenghi
“If I’m spending more than 15 minutes on a beat, I’m not feeling it.”
― Zaytoven
“I’m a little girl; no one wants to beat up on me.”
― Zendaya
“I don’t have any regrets about not having had children. What’s the point? It’s just something else to beat yourself up over.”
― Zoe Wanamaker
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