Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sugar Ray Leonard

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

George Foreman

We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.

Shawn Costino

I ended up chasing them down the stairs. I was in my boxers chasing them with a golf club.

Tony Lee

I feel like this was a boxing match where one of the boxers does all the training and lifting weights while the other fighter just waits until the day of the fight and gets a lucky punch. I don't feel like they won this game. I feel like we gave it to them. We played well for 39 minutes and gave it away in the last minute.

Joe Calzaghe

I have been waiting eight years for this fight and I can't wait. It is the sort of fight all boxers dream of and I cannot wait to unify the titles.

Clint Eastwood

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has

Frank Warren

We look forward to continuing to promote these great young boxers managed by Frank and continuing our close relationship. We wish Frank all success in the pursuit of his private interest in the world of boxing.

Douglas Muzzio

Weld is an established guy and he's got credentials. He's got what boxers call a puncher's chance in this.

Charlize Theron

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

Charles M. Blow

I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.

Jamie Redknapp

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

Anthony Horowitz

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

Cybill Shepherd

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

Kevin Spacey

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

Jennifer Saunders

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

Fernando Pessoa

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

James Hillman

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.

Elia Kazan

I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.

John Ortberg

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

Og Mandino

Today.....I begin a new life".

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

J. C. Ryle

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

P. C. Cast

So I was beginning my new life as a anomaly, which figured about as much as it sucked.

Ouida

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Imre Kertesz

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

Marcel Proust

L'adulte' re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.