Fighter Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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 called my training camp Fighter's Heaven

  Muhammad Ali

  Heaven, Training, Camps

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2012

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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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• The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier

  Muhammad Ali

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2011

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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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• I've been in the sport of boxing for a long time, but I haven't been able to bring my 'A-game' totally out. I've beaten fighters with my 'C-Game' and with my 'D-Game,' but I haven't been able to beat anybody with my 'A-Game.'

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Games, Long

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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 never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.

  Don Rickles

  Hands, Doubt, Done

  "What I've Learned: Don Rickles". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Lubo Penev is a fighter, he never gives up and remains cool during tough moments. I remember when he was sick with cancer, but fought and returned to football. Most people would have given up and prayed to God for mercy. 
  (on former teammate Luboslav Penev)

  Hristo Stoichkov

  Football, Giving Up, Cancer

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• I knew I loved it because I could take the failures. I was like a professional fighter - they're beat 20 times in a row and they just want that one win.

  Pat Cooper

  Winning, Want, Beats

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• I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

  Dov Davidoff

  Levels, Physicist

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• Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Men, Years

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• Tired? I don't think so. I'm in such good shape that I could box even 25 rounds.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Tired, Thinking

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• I'm personally not a Muhammad Ali fan.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fans, Muhammad

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• The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, People, Champion

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• I've worked in pubs for years and you get people challenging you. Challenging your masculinity.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Years, People

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• I knew it was all or nothing.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation

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• Joe Calzaghe was using the excuse, no one knows who I am in America. Now everyone knows who I am in America.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Who I Am, America

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• Ricky Hatton would knock Khan out. 5 years ago or now.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Years, Ricky Hatton

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• It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Humble, Pie

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• You've got to be careful against classy fighters, especially counter-punchers because if you go for the finish too early, you can end up getting finished yourself.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Ends, Be Careful

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• He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Exercise, Giving

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• Joe Calzaghe is next. If he gets himself out that armchair, gets himself back in the gym, let's have a fight for the British fans and the rest of the world.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Fighting, Fans

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