Killer Instinct Quotes

• The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

  Eddie Reese

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Boxing, Killers

  Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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• The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

  Hiroya Oku

  Looks, Killers, Instinct

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• You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Hate, Nice

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• My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.

  Miguel Torres

  Art, Strong, Killers

  FaceBook post by Miguel Angel Torres from Oct 12, 2010

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• Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

  Germaine Greer

  Spiritual, Pain, Athlete

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• You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Psychology, Killers

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• I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into the killer instinct inherent in animals, where they are locked onto a target and will walk through anything that gets between them and their intended target.

  Robert Patrick

  Animal, Target, Substance

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

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Hunting

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• Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

  Chris Evert

  Boys, Champion, Machines

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• When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother.

  George Foreman

  Jesus, Brother, Athlete

  "George Foreman: Giving Life an Extra Punch". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Political, Killers

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mother, Feelings, Lioness

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• Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

  Caleb Carr

  New York, Charity, Killers

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• I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cat, Thinking, Fire

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.15, Penguin

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Team

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• Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

  Jennifer Estep

  Killers, Instinct, Reaper

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.873, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.

  Landon Donovan

  Soccer, Country, Thinking

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• The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Men, Media

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.613, Best Books on

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