Fighter Quotes - Page 29

• I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Sports, Giving, Effort

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Beef, Boxers

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• I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, People, Trying

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• He's smaller than me, did you see him? He looked like a noodle next to me.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Next, Noodles

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• I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Smart, Kids

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• I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.

  Adrien Broner

  Xbox, Motivation, Dad

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• When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Boys, Boss

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• Ay Rios, you want to fight at 140? We can fight at 140. You're chubby, I just seen you in Vegas, you were chubby, your ears were chubby.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Fighting, Vegas

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• Everybody saying Guerrero, I'll really turn your ass into a real ghost.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Real, Ghost

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• Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Fighting, Night

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• It don't matter what competition it is. I make it all look easy.

  Adrien Broner

  Motivation, Competition, Looks

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• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Book, Reading

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

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• A fighter has to know fear.

  Cus D'Amato

  Fear, Negativity, Knows

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• A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

  Jenson Button

  Sports, Morning, Thinking

  "Button your lip" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2005.

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• I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

  Jerry Doyle

  Air, Years, Fishing

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• The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Quality, Noses

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• I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

  David O. Russell

  Careers, Instinct, Starting

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• There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle.

  Emanuel Steward

  Believe, Thinking, Oxygen

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• The state of mind of a fighter is so important. I don't like to see a fighter stay locked up in a room. Sometimes it works against them. They think and they worry. They dwell, sitting in that dark room. You come back and they're psyched out. I like to see boxers eat and then walk, mingle with people. You have to have a certain amount of movement.

  Emanuel Steward

  Dark, Thinking, People

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• Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

  David Whyte

  Looks, Elbows, Manipulation

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• There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Opportunity, Night

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• With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Military, War, Mistake

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• A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up.

  Rickson Gracie

  Real, Fall, Men

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• When I train, I love to take time off and fly to the Natural History Museum or an exhibition. I just love that. When you know your past, it will help you with your future… That’s why most of my friends are not fighters. Most of my friends are nerds like me. That’s why I have a hard time finding a girlfriend. I need someone to talk science with. I’m married to my work right now. But you never know. One day I could wake up and just do something different. Life is so unpredictable.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Girlfriend, Hard Times, Past

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• Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

  Martha McSally

  Hawaii, Pilots, Said

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