Fighter Quotes - Page 24

• Julio Cesar Chavez will never be ready to fight me.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Chavez

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• "It gets better." - On his campaign against bullying.

  Sergio Martinez

  Bullying, Motivation, Get Better

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• I've waited almost 10 months for this revenge, I know I deserve it.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Revenge, Months

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• I know by the way the punch landed, he wouldn't get up.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Way, Get Up

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• To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Champion, Trying

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• It makes me feel good. Being a foreigner, (the American fans) they make me feel like I'm a citizen of this country.

  Sergio Martinez

  Country, Motivation, Feel Good

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• The other champions don't want to fight me. Every single one.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Champion

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• He can't take back what he said on Twitter, that he will fight me.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Said

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• No. He'll get hurt, and he's a good person.

  Sergio Martinez

  Hurt, Motivation, Good Person

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• Mentally, he's not the same person anymore (Paul Williams).

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Persons

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• I've never had any intentions of taking a break (from boxing).

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Boxing, Taking A Break

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• If I could've made Muhammad Ali smaller I would have fought him.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Muhammad, Made

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• They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Attitude, Mistake

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• The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, School, Cities

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

  Louis L'Amour

  Inspirational, Men, Scared

  Louis L'Amour (2011). “The Daybreakers and Sackett (2-Book Bundle)”, p.97, Bantam

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• The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter

  Forrest Griffin

  Bed, Lovers, Ifs

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• When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

  B. B. King

  Men, Thinking, Player

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• He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.

  Mike Tyson

  Class, Long, Boxing

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• I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Guy, Brain

  Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

  Nonito Donaire

  Games, Play, Guy

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• The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, New Beginnings, Simple

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Book, Reading

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

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• The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

  Jim Bailey

  Running, Determination, Kings

  Jim Bailey (2013). “The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story”, p.37, A&C Black

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• My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Pain, Father, Cancer

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• A fighter has to know fear.

  Cus D'Amato

  Fear, Negativity, Knows

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