Joe Louis
Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow, best known as Joe Louis, was an American professional boxer. He held the world heavyweight championship from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. Nicknamed the "Brown Bomber". Louis' championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which he participated in 26 championship fights; a 27th fight, against Ezzard Charles, was a challenge to Charles' heavyweight title and so is not included in Louis' reign. Louis was victorious in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth13 May 1914
CountryUnited States of America
Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die.
I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.
You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.
The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.
I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.
A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.
There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.
Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.
I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.