Fighter Quotes - Page 20

• Boxing is already stable, as far as the opportunity to fight, opportunity for fighters to step inside the ring and make some money - I think that's OK, that's fairly legit. I just think fighters need to be represented when it comes down to making sure the "i" is dotted and the "t" is crossed.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• What London wants is a champion, a fighter for London. It doesn't want a patsy of George Osborne or David Cameron.

  Sadiq Khan

  Champion, Want, London

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• I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because I'm a fighter. I didn't survive my life to ask permission to write my books.

  C.E. Morgan

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• More often you see Argentine fighters doing big things on a major stage. To be associated with those guys is really an honor and it's great to see so many people from my culture do big things in the sport.

  Chris Algieri

  Sports, People, Guy

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• John Lewis has great history as a civil rights fighter.As a young man, he was one of the guys out there who was leading the parades during the [Martin Luther] King [Jr.] era. So, we all respect his history. But then I hear him crying the blues about Mr. [Donald] Trump and saying he's an illegitimate president, I take offense to that. If it's illegitimate, why is he going on?

  Jim Brown

  Kings, Men, Rights

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• No matter how discouraged I get from the people who are being appointed in this next administration, how discouraged I feel to know that I will no longer have folks who look like me and share in my vision, I am encouraged by what I think that this particular time period and this particular election season will inspire in the next generation and the current generation of freedom fighters.

  Janet Mock

  Thinking, People, Inspire

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you look at MMA, you don't have an amateur MMA. You have some of these young men like James Kirkland who had 140 amateur fights, I had 3. My skill level was I was just powerful as hell, I didn't know how to actually box in the beginning. I was just punching them, the skill level wasn't there. You will have one or two females that are really skillful, but who are they gonna box to get better. MMA is just more exciting because you kick and throw people on the ground and whatever. But people tuned into a fighter like me because I put people to sleep.

  Ann Wolfe

  Powerful, Sleep, Fighting

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Remember the box fight: You start as a southpaw, you go back to fighting as a right-handed fighter.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Fighting, Remember

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What people don't realize I have put 160 kids through school. I had a gym full of children. Some of those kids slept in the gym. Some of those kids lived in the gyms. I went to those kids schools. I think with the training, I can't make a fighter have that passion that I have, and it takes years to develop a fighter.

  Ann Wolfe

  Children, Passion, School

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I was putting middleweights, Light heavy's, heavies and Super Heavy's to sleep. And it got to a point where no one would fight me, so I retired. I will never box again because I went 2 years and no one would fight me at all, zero. That's when I started training fighters.

  Ann Wolfe

  Sleep, Fighting, Training

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• From the public's perspective, they like to see guys that go out there and stand. Now, if you happen to be one of those two athletes that are standing out there and trading with each other, afterwards you would disagree with those people. The spectators are not on the receiving end of all those strikes. I have young guys who say, "I like to stand and trade." I say, "Really? Then you are not a very intelligent fighter."

  Dan Severn

  Athlete, Intelligent, Perspective

  Source: m.bleacherreport.com

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• They don't mind getting punched in the face and, more importantly, they don't mind punching other people in the face. I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.

  Scott Adkins

  People, Mind, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My only talent is that I have a so-called big engine. I can attack on successive days - well maybe now not so often - or ride tempo at the front of the peloton for a week. I'm not a climber or a sprinter. Whatever makes the race sticky, fast and difficult is good for me. I'm just a big motor - I think I'm allowed to say that - and a fighter. I'll do whatever it takes to make the race.

  Jens Voigt

  Thinking, Talent, Week

  VeloVoices Interview, velovoices.com. May 10, 2013.

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• I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Fighting, Roots, Soul

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• Most of this film, however, is about interpretation - are these people terrorists or freedom fighters? Are they good or bad? Is cutting timber good or bad? And I don't feel like the answers to those questions are simple, so we don't try to answer them for the audience. I wanted to elicit the strongest - and most heartfelt - arguments from the characters in the film and let those arguments bang up against the strongest arguments of their opponents.

  Marshall Curry

  Character, Cutting, Simple

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• To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Live Life, Successful

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• I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me.

  Kara Goucher

  Dark, Thinking, Race

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• I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

  Lola Alvarez Bravo

  Cameras, Fooling Around, Streets

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• I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.

  Jake Ellenberger

  Needs, World, Beats

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• To be a fighter, you have to be passionate. I have so much passion, it's hard to hold it all in. That passion escapes as tears from my eyes, sweat from my pores, blood from my veins.

  Ronda Rousey

  Eye, Passion, Blood

  Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.

  Rocky Graziano

  Growing Up, Fighting, East

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• For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Thinking, Rivers

  "Koryta details murder, a panther and a dangerous woman". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2011.

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• When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  Yves Rossy

  Dark, Clouds, Light

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• People think by challenging me they're going to show they're tough. But I'm not tough. Decent drinker. Not such a bad kisser. But not a great fighter.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Thinking, People, Challenges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

  Gerald Seymour

  Men, Another Day, Gatekeepers

  Gerald Seymour (2007). “Harry's Game: A Thriller”, p.44, The Overlook Press

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