Fighter Quotes - Page 8

• All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Team, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

  Bruce Lee

  Chance, Strikes, Perceive

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• I'm not a tough guy or a good fighter at all. [Boxing] is just a great way to work out that's not boring. It's also good for your mental health. If you have an Irish or Scottish last name you should definitely do it.

  Gavin McInnes

  Names, Boxing, Work Out

  Source: thoughtcatalog.com

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• I will never blame a fighter if he doesn't fight me because he takes care of his own interest first, and prioritize the interests of his family first, that's completely normal.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Fighting, Firsts, Normal

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?

  Daniel Jacobs

  Rings, Persons, Mentality

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.

  Chris Algieri

  Sports, Attention, Way

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• It's great to see part of my culture doing so well in the sport that I'm involved in, a sport that I have a passion for. I grew up hearing about a lot of Argentine fighters, the great Carlos Monzon and even the fighters on ESPN lime Omar Vaez; and now guys like Marcos Maidana and Sergio Martinez.

  Chris Algieri

  Sports, Passion, Guy

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I think a trainer is very important at the beginning of a fighter's career. A fighter needs to know how to throw a left, throw a right, how to duck, how to do certain things. Over time, you don't really need a trainer. You've got to train yourself. You've got to motivate yourself. And I don't think anybody can put that in you.

  Larry Holmes

  Thinking, Careers, Ducks

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I think Roy Jones is a great fighter, a great puncher. But you know, he doesn't use the jab. But he's got everything else going for him. The problem that hurts Roy Jones in the boxing business, in the celebrity business, is his attitude. Attitude hurts, because you say a lot of things that you probably don't really mean and you say them because you don't want to be put down. But you've got a lot of people who don't like what you say, and that hurts. And that's what Roy Jones has been hurt by. That's what I have been hurt by.

  Larry Holmes

  Hurt, Attitude, Mean

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Boxing and chess are similar. It’s about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to defeat my opponent. It’s about finding the best way. A good boxer has to be variable. He doesn’t just need to know how to punch. He must also know how to protect himself, how to defend, how to avoid the opponent’s punches. Only a complete fighter can become champion.

  Lennox Lewis

  Mean, Boxing, Choices

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. That’s what he’'ll be remembered for. But good boxing doesn’t work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he’'d come a cropper some day.

  Lennox Lewis

  Boxing, Fit, Tyson

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Islamic State is following a clear strategy. First, it wants to solidify its power in Iraq and Syria. Then, their fighters will try to advance to Syria's Mediterranean coast. If they are successful, that will be seen as their next great triumph. And then, their target will be Jordan, where things will be easy for them. Already, Islamic State has broad support in many cities there. And when they get there, it will once again come as a great surprise to everybody.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Islamic, Successful, Support

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a fighter for love. I guess it's just that thing of standing up for what you believe in and what and who you love. And any opportunity to avoid people fighting about things the better, really.

  Edith Bowman

  Believe, Fighting, Opportunity

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

  Lu Xun

  Pain, Men, People

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• We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.

  Dave Grohl

  Feels Right, Ifs, Foo Fighters

  "Dave Grohl: The ‘Sonic Highways’ Exit Interview". Interview with Jason Newman, www.rollingstone.com. December 8, 2014.

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• I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

  Max Irons

  Thinking, People, Firsts

  "Red Riding Hood - Max Irons interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Well, my mother and certain other people in my life - a lot of important people - have said, "Floyd, nobody is perfect except for god." And I always knew that; I just wanted my victories to be flawless. I didn't want to get hit at all. I wasn't gonna make any mistakes. And that's the problem with me growing up and being around a trainer that wants his fighter to be perfect.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Mother, Growing Up, Mistake

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.

  Mickey Rourke

  Names, Wanted, Good Fight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Klitschko has had a good career. A lot of his fights have been out of the country as though he hasn't even been invited into the real heavyweight picture in the United States. He's a good fighter. You can't talk about him unless you can beat him and it doesn't seem that there's anyone around who can truly beat him.

  George Foreman

  Country, Real, Fighting

  "George Foreman Interview; Talks Mayweather-Pacquiao". Boxing News 24 Interview, www.boxingnews24.com. April 24, 2015.

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• I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven

  Muhammad Ali

  Heaven, Training, Camps

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2012

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• The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

  Muhammad Ali

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2011

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• Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

  Muhammad Ali

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Twitter post from Jun 24, 2012

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• I'm weary of the battle. But a tired fighter can still be a fighter.

  Robert Cormier

  Tired, Battle, Weary

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• The main fighter for the DSP [Deutsch-Sozialistische Partei or German Socialist Party], as I have said, was Julius Streicher, then a teacher in Nuremberg. At first he, too, had a holy conviction of the mission and the future of his movement.

  Adolf Hitler

  Teacher, Party, Firsts

  Adolf Hitler (1943). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.

  Spencer Pratt

  Boxing, Honor, Training

  Source: www.complex.com

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