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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• Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.

  Rob Lowe

  Fighting, People, Belief

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• No expert can predict the heavyweight division. Every punch can make the decision.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Decision, Experts

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• When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, People, Champion

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• I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that's what counts. That's why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Men, Light

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• After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that.

  James Toney

  Sports, Motivation, Real

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• I don't need a belt to make me. I make the belt. I feel great and that's all that matters. I'm still heavyweight champion of the world.

  James Toney

  Motivation, Champion, Matter

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• The knockouts did not change me as a fighter. I was more of a boxer as a heavyweight. The problem was when I came back to light heavyweight, I lost all of the muscle and I lost all of the energy. I was going for the knockout because I didn't want to go the whole 12 rounds because my body was tired. I couldn't understand why my body was tired and it didn't dawn on me until now.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Tired, Light

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• ...well this US eight, with all its material occupying every seat just would not go fast. They rowed their hearts out but it never started to sing through the water. And no one ever found out why. The answer to this is slightly mystical because the sum of a crew is greater than its parts. Those eight heavyweights had not time to develop the bond, the sacred trust, that can make a racing eight fly.

  Daniel Topolski

  Heart, Eight, Water

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• MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Regret, Boxing, Champion

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• Back in March, before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, a group of national security heavyweights signed an open letter that called Trump fundamentally dishonest and utterly unfit for the presidency. Now, two days after Trump's victory, some in the national security establishment are wondering whether to return to the fold.

  Ari Shapiro

  Two, Victory, President

  "National Security Elites Consider Whether To Work For Trump". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, publicradioeast.org. November 10, 2016.

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• David Haye is too light. Simply too light. He's not a real heavyweight.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Real, Light

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• To move up to heavyweight to fight me is a jump too far, in my opinion.

  David Haye

  Moving, Fighting, Opinion

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I'm fast for a heavyweight.

  David Haye

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Oliver [McCall] has meant so much to my career and showed that in the heavyweight division, anything is possible.

  Anthony Joshua

  Careers, Division, Anything Is Possible

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• I think Frank Mir was 100 percent underestimated and I'm really happy to see the result because I think we needed it in the heavyweight division.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Thinking, Division, Results

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• I don't believe you've seen the best of The Hayemaker yet. I want to leave on the top of the game. Recognised as the best heavyweight fighter on the planet, then I can hang the gloves back up in peace.

  David Haye

  Believe, Games, Gloves

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I had two ACL injuries in my life, and both of them happened when I was training with bigger guys; a heavyweight and a light heavyweight. Sometimes it's not even because the guy is good, you just get hurt.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Hurt, Light, Two

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• With the Klitschkos, though, unless someone comes around, they can stay where they are forever! The heavyweight division is lackluster, and it will be until someone comes along who can test them.

  Gerry Cooney

  Forever, Division, Tests

  Source: www.boxing247.com

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• There is definitely a mood in the party for making sure that two cabinet heavyweights we have got, who come from different traditions, different sides of the EU referendum campaign, Theresa May and Michael Gove - it would be right to put them to the party in the country.

  Nicky Morgan

  Country, Party, Two

  "Brexit: Crabb and Fox out of Tory race after May wins first round of voting - As it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I am the heavyweight champion of the world, and the greatest heavyweight you have seen for a long while. With Tyson on the card, it is definitely an added bonus because Lewis-Tyson on the same card would be a great doubleheader. This is what the fans want to see.

  Lennox Lewis

  Long, Champion, World

  Lennox Lewis during National Conference Call, www.boxinginsider.com. April 24, 2003.

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