Heavyweights Quotes

• I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Guy, Movement

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• But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.

  Christopher Meloni

  Jobs, Blessed, Guy

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• I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

  Lennox Lewis

  Plans, Rings, Asks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Fighting, Years

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

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• I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.

  Muhammad Ali

  Freedom, Humorous, Equality

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jul 26, 2012

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• I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Thinking, League

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• I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.

  Larry Holmes

  Dream, Thinking, Champion

  "Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It" by Tom Callahan, TIME, June 21, 1982.

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• That Mitt Romney, he is a master campaigner. This week he was introducing his wife, and he said, 'She is the heavyweight champion of my life.” Which may explain why on the ride home, he was strapped to the roof of the car.

  Bill Maher

  Home, Wife, Car

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• When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Fighting, Boxing

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• Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport.
  Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey.

  George Aaron Barton

  Sports, New York, Fighting

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• Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.

  Larry Holmes

  Boxing, Guy, Champion

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• I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

  Muhammad Ali

  Race, Boxing, Titles

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• The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Real, Boxing

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• You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Champion, Black

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• Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?

  Mark Sanchez

  Jobs, Winning, Titles

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• It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.

  Muhammad Ali

  Champion, World, One Woman

  “Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• What the Hell. In 1988, I was the AWA heavyweight champion and I never came to Milwaukee.

  Jerry Lawler

  Champion, Hell, Milwaukee

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• I'm going to give the people their money's worth...true sports entertainment for their dollar. I'm the undefeated IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion making my fifth title defense. The crowd will be with me because everybody wants to be with a winner.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Sports, Light, People

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• I don't care that no one has successfully defended the (light heavyweight) title. I care about preparation, training and getting inside the cage to fight.

  Rafael Cavalcante

  Fighting, Light, Preparation

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• The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Sports, Division, World

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• Chocolate Kinder from Germany. My wife is from Germany and once I tasted them I was scared I would have to fight at heavyweight.

  Erislandy Lara

  Fighting, Wife, Chocolate

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• You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

  George Foreman

  Winning, Sight, Years

  George Foreman, Ken Abraham (2007). “God In My Corner: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.167, Thomas Nelson

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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've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

  Will McDonough

  Fighting, World, Olympics

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• I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get into the ring for real, even the worst heavyweight in the world is going to murder you. You've just got to appreciate the pain and the suffering and the glory and skill that goes into what they do. That's why I love the sport so much.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Sports, Pain, Real

  Source: www.mensfitness.co.uk

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