Fighter Quotes - Page 32

• Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Rays, Sugar, Pounds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

  Barbara Jordan

  Men, Erode, Want

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.

  Pat Summitt

  Hate, Pride, Player

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• What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Conversation

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• This fight should be dubbed, 'No Excuses.' If Carl Froch beats me, there won't be any excuses. I beat Carl Froch, there shouldn't be any excuses. No judges, no referees, no nothing. May the best man win.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Winning

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• You can still entertain without getting a knockout.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Knockouts, Stills

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• It's not about size, it's a science.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Size

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• In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.

  Andre Ward

  Giving Up, Motivation, School

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• A lot of people look for you to change. Everything has stayed the same. Financially, this is God's money, and my wife and I are just stewards of it.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, People, Wife

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• I think he takes a good shot, I take a good shot too, but taking too many shots is not good for any fighter. And it's not really a reputation you want.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Want

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• It's one thing to have an eye for the sport, and it's another to have a feel for the sport. He has both.

  Andre Ward

  Sports, Motivation, Eye

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• Anybody that's in my weight class, above me or beneath me, I keep an eye on.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Eye, Class

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• I'm just excited that the fans are going to get their money's worth, and you can't say that a lot of the times.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fans, Excited

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• I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Boxing

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• I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Book, Men

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• I'm not going to say that I'm the best, we respect our champions. Floyd's been doing this a lot longer than me, he's been a lot of mega fights and I won't dare say that I'm better than Floyd Mayweather.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Champion

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• He says he was physically not right, that's fine but the mentality, even if you're not right, you're still in a fight and you still show what you have deep down inside, and I don't think he showed the mettle that he needed to show in that fight in order to beat a guy like Miranda.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

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• I think Bute would have to face off with the Super Six Champion to prove that he's the best Super Middleweight. You come out of a tournament like this on top, that demands a lot of respect and carries a lot of weight.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Champion

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• I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Husband, Dad

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• He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

  Antonio Tarver

  Mistake, Intimidation, Made

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• Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Ignorance, Self, Play

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• You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Curtains, Shows

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• To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Successful, Needs

  "David Haye admits he's more afraid of his mum than Nikolai Valuev" by Beth Neil, www.mirror.co.uk. November 06, 2009.

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• I can do what I want. And I always do, do what I want.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Want, Can Do

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• If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Hands, Tomatoes

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