Old Wounds Quotes - Page 2

• Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.

  Conor McGregor

  Running, Real, Eye

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

  Marquis de Sade

  Hope, Soul, Attention

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

  Eugene O'Neill

  War, Pride, Long

  Eugene O'Neill (1995). “Three Plays”, Vintage

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