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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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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Either I believe I can be the best heavyweight fighter in the world and beat everyone, or I will not. I feel I can beat everyone as a heavyweight.

Evander Holyfield

Believe, World, Fighter

Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight

Michael Bolton

Fighting, Training, Titles

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One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

Mike Tyson

Children, Dope, Thinking

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I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly...Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything.

Mike Tyson

Pain, Winning, Years

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The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

Edward St Aubyn

Winning, World, Championship

"Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.

Alexander McCall Smith

Prepared, Persons, Built

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Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world!

Scott Steiner

Funny, Wwe, Hook

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Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

Larry Holmes

Boxers, Kind, Boat

Interview with Ed Ludwig, www.doghouseboxing.com. January 15, 2004.

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The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.

Eric S. Raymond

Design, Fleeing, Three

Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.182, Addison-Wesley Professional

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Not only will I beat you tonight...I'll beat you this Sunday and become World Heavyweight Champion!

Oscar Gutierrez

Sunday, Wwe, Champion

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Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.

Mike Tyson

Winning, Broken, Boxing

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Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.

Jim Bailey

Eras, Modern, Share

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I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide.

Wladimir Klitschko

Fighting, Thinking, Giving

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Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

Teddy Atlas

Sports, Boxing, Water

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I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

Lennox Lewis

Scene, Accomplished, Hard

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The Youngest World Heavyweight Champion in History!

Randy Orton

Wwe, Champion, World

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In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.

Wladimir Klitschko

Fighting, Division, Excitement

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My goal is to be the best fighter in the world, UFC Heavyweight Champion. There is no back-up plan.

Brock Lesnar

Goal, Champion, World

Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Evander Holyfield

Goal, Champion, World

Evander Holyfield (2008). “Becoming Holyfield: A Fighter's Journey”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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