Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.
Also attributed to Lewis Grizzard, among others.
Attributed
After Donegal won the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. RTÉ Sport http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/football/2012/0923/338781-mark-mchugh-savours-deserved-donegal-victory/
Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.
Also attributed to Lewis Grizzard, among others.
Attributed
“Don't leave me."
"Leave you? I'm going to marry you.”
Sylvia Day (1973) American writer
Source: Reflected in You
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm
On himself
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 168
“I advise you all very strongly - go for a run, get some exercise, and have a beautiful day.”
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
Valentine Low, "Shiver me timbers Boris", Evening Standard, 15 November 2004, p. 3.
Cornered by reporters asking about his affair after a morning run.
2000s, 2004
“This very night I am going to leave off Tobacco!”
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist
Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realized.
Letter to Thomas Manning (December 26, 1815)
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
Remark made as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announcing the U.S. gulf war plan against Saddam Hussein's army. Pentagon press briefing (23 January 1991).
1990s