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Motivation Quote by Rob Walton

"Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation"

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There is something endearingly chaotic about the way Rob Walton builds a whole cosmology out of filing paperwork. He starts with a scrappy, DIY move - incorporating himself just to handle publishing - then immediately inflates it into origin-myth scale: Big Bang Incorporated, creation, the beginning of everything. The intent feels practical (a business vehicle for rights, printing, distribution), but the language insists on drama. That mismatch is the point. He is framing a mundane administrative decision as a personal launch event, a fresh universe where he gets to set the laws.

The subtext is about control and authorship. Athletes are often treated as brands owned by leagues, sponsors, and media narratives; incorporating is a way to reclaim the machinery. Naming it Big Bang flips the script: not just protecting income, but declaring creative agency. It also signals a certain swagger that is familiar in sports culture - the playful exaggeration, the inside-joke grandiosity, the sense that you can will a new reality into existence through confidence.

Contextually, it lands in that late-20th-century moment when public figures began formalizing the business side of their identity. Celebrity LLCs and personal corporations became less a sign of greed than a hedge against being managed by everyone else. Walton’s line makes the corporate move feel less like a tax strategy and more like a statement of self-invention: if the world is going to reduce you to a logo, you might as well be the one who designed the universe it lives in.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Walton, Rob. (2026, January 18). Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/planet-lucy-press-i-incorporated-myself-to-deal-13285/

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Walton, Rob. "Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/planet-lucy-press-i-incorporated-myself-to-deal-13285/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/planet-lucy-press-i-incorporated-myself-to-deal-13285/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Rob Walton (born March 29, 1949) is a Athlete from Canada.

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