Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

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

Gordon Brown

The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist.

Jerry Lawler

What the Hell. In 1988, I was the AWA heavyweight champion and I never came to Milwaukee.

Jim Bailey

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

Floyd Patterson

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Muhammad Ali

Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!

Larry Holmes

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.

Rod Serling

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

Lennox Lewis

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

David Sedaris

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

David Millar

I've been proud to be national champion.

Rafael Benitez

The positive things from Wednesday are that we have one more Champions League point, and we were better than Chelsea,

Kevin Colbert

We're not going to sign everyone. We may have to move on without some of the players who helped us win a championship. That's the way the game is today.

Arnold Palmer

I have won the Australian, I won the British, all PGA championships, but I haven't won the PGA championship.

Denis Waitley

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.

Earl Browder

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Jason Giambi

We have to go play what seems like the World Champions in Tampa. We have to win every day, and we're going to play the team that's actually given us the most problems. We have to play good baseball.

Joaquin Bautista

We have to get at least two state champions and two others have to place in the top four. If that happens we'll be in a good place for winning (the team title).

James Brown

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

Muhammad Ali

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

Ray Rice

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

Wangari Maathai

Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.