“You never heard of any of the fighters [in heavyweight division]. It is very hard to watch. It upsets me to turn on my television set and never be able to look forward to a good fight in that weight class.” LooksHardAbleTurnsFightingClassWatchesHeardTelevisionWeightFighterUpsetDivisionTurn-onGood FightHeavyweights Author:Larry Holmes
“Tex Cobb would call me every day after we fought, I got sick of talking to him. I liked him a lot as a fighter, and as a person, and feel that sometimes he was misunderstood.” FeelsPersonsSometimesTalkingSickFighterCall MeMisunderstoodTalking To Him Author:Larry Holmes
“Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.” StillsTwoHardHurtCasesFighterKennyIt Still Hurts Author:Larry Holmes
“I respect every fighter that gets inside of the ring, especially with me.” RingsFighter Author:Tavoris Cloud
“I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?” PersonsRingsFighterMentality Author:Daniel Jacobs
“The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.” WaySportsAttentionFighter Author:Chris Algieri
“Boxing on Long Island - there is history there. It's been a while since Buddy McGirt and Gerry Cooney, but you know, we are in kind of a resurgence now. We are putting our show there constantly - Star Boxing shows at the Paramount have drawn big crowds over the years and there is a lot of up and coming talent there now. You see more and more gyms with competitive professional fighters.” KnowsYearsKindLongShowsBigsStarsTalentCrowdsFighterIslandsBoxingGymBuddyParamountLong IslandResurgence Author:Chris Algieri
“Let me touch on [Ruslan] Provodnikov's style. He is a lot better than people think. Every fight he has lost has been a very close fight. He really brought it and he is a great champion. On top of being an exciting fighter the guy is good.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensGuyFightingLostStyleLet MeExcitingFighterChampion Author:Chris Algieri
“[Ruslan Provodnikov] s a fantastic fighter but in terms of his style and Manny's [ Pacquiao] they are completely different and the preparations for each are completely different but that is no different for me because I am always fighting guys with different styles.” DifferentGuyFightingTermStyleFighterFantasticPreparationDifferent StylesAlways FightingPacquiao Author:Chris Algieri
“We know Manny [Pacquiao] is a living legend and a hall of fame for sure. He's one of the greatest fighters that has ever lived. For me, I have to go out there and be myself. I have the talent and the tools to win this fight - I just have to go out there and perform.” KnowsFightingWinningTalentFameToolsFighterHallsLegendsHall Of FamePacquiaoLiving Legends Author:Chris Algieri
“It's great to see part of my culture doing so well in the sport that I'm involved in, a sport that I have a passion for. I grew up hearing about a lot of Argentine fighters, the great Carlos Monzon and even the fighters on ESPN lime Omar Vaez; and now guys like Marcos Maidana and Sergio Martinez.” WellsGuyCulturePassionSportsGrewInvolvedGrew UpHearingFighterMarcosLimesEspnOmar Author:Chris Algieri
“More often you see Argentine fighters doing big things on a major stage. To be associated with those guys is really an honor and it's great to see so many people from my culture do big things in the sport.” PeopleBigsGuyCultureSportsStageHonorMajorsFighterBig Things Author:Chris Algieri
“I had some very fit people. I worked with a lot of athletes helping them, especially combat athletes, MMA fighters,[Dennis] Bermudez, [Chris] Weidman, and guys on the lower levels - boxers and MMA fighters.” PeopleHelpingGuyLevelsFitAthleteFighterMmaCombatBoxers Author:Chris Algieri
“I box but I have never heard anyone say that I was a boring fighter or that they didn't really like watching my style.” HeardStyleBoxesBoringFighter Author:Chris Algieri
“Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.” HeartKindProblemBigsAttitudeFighterMikeTysonBig Heart Author:Larry Holmes
“Boxing is already stable, as far as the opportunity to fight, opportunity for fighters to step inside the ring and make some money - I think that's OK, that's fairly legit. I just think fighters need to be represented when it comes down to making sure the "i" is dotted and the "t" is crossed.” ThinkingNeedsFightingOpportunityStepsRingsFighterBoxingStableLegit Author:Larry Holmes
“The only thing I'd like to see is to give fighters an option to wear a small headguard, a one-ounce headguard. Some fighters might not want that option. But you know - you're training all the time, you're boxing all the time, and you've got a headguard on, you're using big gloves, and you're getting hit. And you observe that your face is better protected that way. Now they're doing it with ten-ounce gloves and no headguard. I think if they have a one-ounce headguard on to protect some of those brain cells in the head, it would be beneficial to the fighter.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantGivingBigsMightWould BeFacesBrainProtectTenTrainingFighterCellsBoxingYour FaceProtectedBeneficialGlovesBrain Cells Author:Larry Holmes
“I think a trainer is very important at the beginning of a fighter's career. A fighter needs to know how to throw a left, throw a right, how to duck, how to do certain things. Over time, you don't really need a trainer. You've got to train yourself. You've got to motivate yourself. And I don't think anybody can put that in you.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsImportantCertainLeftCareersKnow HowTrainFighterDucksTrainers Author:Larry Holmes
“Fighters DON'T know how to jab. You take Roy Jones, for instance. He paws his jab. He throws it out, it don't land. And then he'll hit you with a left hook, hit you with a right hand. But he doesn't really know the jab. A guy needs to learn the jab, know the jab, and use the jab. And these guys don't do it today.” KnowsNeedsUseHandsTodayGuyLeftKnow HowLandInstanceFighterHookPawsRoy Jones Author:Larry Holmes
“I think Roy Jones is a great fighter, a great puncher. But you know, he doesn't use the jab. But he's got everything else going for him. The problem that hurts Roy Jones in the boxing business, in the celebrity business, is his attitude. Attitude hurts, because you say a lot of things that you probably don't really mean and you say them because you don't want to be put down. But you've got a lot of people who don't like what you say, and that hurts. And that's what Roy Jones has been hurt by. That's what I have been hurt by.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantMeanHas BeensUseProblemHurtAttitudeFighterBoxingReally MeanBeen HurtRoy Jones Author:Larry Holmes
“I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the name of national security the US government both overtly and covertly aligns itself with the apartheid state and against heroic freedom fighters for racial justice ... Not only in 1962 but also keeping in mind that Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008, that kind of myopic understanding of national security has devastating consequences.” NeedsMindKindStatesGovernmentNamesNationsUnderstandingJusticeUnitedWatchesUnited StatesSecurityConsequenceTerrorListsFighterHeroicNot InterestedNational SecurityEmbarrassingApartheidFreedom FighterRacial JusticeMyopic Author:Ryan Shapiro
“Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.” TodayCoursesFighterHeroicFreedom Fighter Author:Ryan Shapiro
“Trump wants a team of fighters. He wants a team of people that understand what they're up against and who's out to get them, to stop them, to destroy them, to impede them or what have you.” PeopleWantTeamTrumpFighter Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a fighter pilot asked me if I wanted to go up on a flight in a single-engine plane. I always had a fear about being in an airplane, but I took this opportunity to go up on my first flight in a single-engine rather than a big commercial plane I was accustomed to. I was hooked and made a commitment to become a pilot. I wanted to motivate others to not let fear stand in the way of their opportunities.” IfsWayFirstsMadeBigsWantedOpportunityCrazyCollegeCommitmentFlightFighterPlanesEnginesPilotsAirplaneAccustomedLicenseHookedFighter Pilot Author:Jessica Cox
“Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground. And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler. And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.” WorldFirstsDifferentWarUsedPurposeDealsPrinciplesPiecesExampleWeaponsWeaknessVictimSoldierTrialsFighterPlanesWar Of The WorldsCombatWorld War IiWorld War IVolunteerNaziTestingSpainStrength And WeaknessBombersArtilleryAmerican Soldier Author:Adam Hochschild
“What London wants is a champion, a fighter for London. It doesn't want a patsy of George Osborne or David Cameron.” WantLondonFighterChampionCameron Author:Sadiq Khan
“I would say that all successful people are "fighters." They're passionate and determined. They see not only what they want out of life, but what they were built for, and fight for it.” PeopleWantFightingSuccessfulBuiltPassionateDeterminedFighterSuccessful People Author:Haley Strode
“I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because I'm a fighter. I didn't survive my life to ask permission to write my books.” WritingArtBookTodaySufferingAsksDealsFighterPermission Author:C.E. Morgan
“In fact, George Washington had been an Indian fighter since the French and Indian War. And a lot of folks, particularly in the red states, the Southern states that had suffered a number of Indian depredations wanted to remove all the Indians to Canada. Let them go with the English. And Washington said, well, you can try , but better, he said, more expedient to negotiate treaties with them because, and again this is what the founders believed to a man, Indians are a vanquished race. They won't be here two to three generations.” MenTryingWarFighterSouthernFounders Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“Everyone wouldn't just accept that I wanted to be a fighter - because I wasn't someone that they envisioned could or would be a fighter.” AcceptingFighter Author:Laila Ali
“I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.” FightingBrainFighter Author:Felicity Jones
“I grew up in a family where I was told there were no limitations on me as a girl and I could be anything I wanted to be. It wasn't until I joined the military that I realized that just because I was a woman - just because I had ovaries - I couldn't become a fighter pilot.These structural limitations were the motivation for me becoming a fighter pilot in the first place.” MotivationGirlMilitaryI RealizedFighterLimitation Author:Martha McSally
“No matter how discouraged I get from the people who are being appointed in this next administration, how discouraged I feel to know that I will no longer have folks who look like me and share in my vision, I am encouraged by what I think that this particular time period and this particular election season will inspire in the next generation and the current generation of freedom fighters.” PeopleThinkingVisionShareInspireElectionFighterDiscouragedNext GenerationFreedom Fighter Author:Janet Mock
“Being a champion and staying that way is the most difficult thing to deal with. Everyone sees you as a target. They want to bring you down. I should always train in order to be at a higher level. Other fighters are training hard as well. I have to be a step or more ahead.” DifficultTrainingTrainFighterChampion Author:Tomoki Kameda
“I never been a fighter that goes in thinking of defeat. I always go in thinking about winning. I prepare myself to win every time I step in the ring and to give the fans what they want. The results, sometimes don't matter to me. But as long as the fans are entertained with a good fight and enjoy watching me fight, that's all I can do. Just doing the best I can and have the results be what they are.” ThinkingGivingLongSometimesFightingWinningEnjoyDefeatRingsFighterGood Fight Author:Orlando Salido
“The script was given to me by one of my agents and they didn't tell me anything about it. My first reaction was, "The West Wing? Is it about a squadron of fighter jets?" Then I turned the page and saw, 'by Aaron Sorkin' and I knew it was going to be something good.” FighterJet Author:Rob Lowe
“ISIS is a threat to all civilized nations. America's intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa. We're not going to allow them to do so. We're going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate.” HomeFightingThreatIntentionFighterCivilized Author:James Mattis
“Remember the box fight: You start as a southpaw, you go back to fighting as a right-handed fighter.” RememberFightingFighter Author:Michael T. Flynn
“Trump will never give up his style, his way to target his enemies. The Americans are fed up with the bullshit they heard for many years. They want the truth, they want to believe what their leaders are saying again. Trump is such an underdog, a fighter - a man who rebels against the establishment, against all kinds of resistance. That is what Americans love.” MenGivingBelieveKindLeaderEnemyStyleGiving UpAll KindsFighterRebelBullshitNever Giving UpUnderdogFed Up Author:Michael T. Flynn
“Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.” PassionateFighter Author:Sergey Karaganov
“If you look at MMA, you don't have an amateur MMA. You have some of these young men like James Kirkland who had 140 amateur fights, I had 3. My skill level was I was just powerful as hell, I didn't know how to actually box in the beginning. I was just punching them, the skill level wasn't there. You will have one or two females that are really skillful, but who are they gonna box to get better. MMA is just more exciting because you kick and throw people on the ground and whatever. But people tuned into a fighter like me because I put people to sleep.” PeopleMenFightingSleepPowerfulHellFemaleExcitingFighterGet Better Author:Ann Wolfe
“Its gonna sound weird, but Glenn Johnson is one of my favorite fighters, because he was one of those throwback fighters that could lose a fight, and then come back and win.” FightingWinningMy FavoriteFighter Author:Ann Wolfe
“I am already inducted into the female boxing hall of fame and I don't know if the International Boxing Hall of Fame has any females in it. I don't know and if I don't, I'm ok with it. At this time in my life I understand that. I never want to say I'm the greatest fighter as a female.” FameFemaleFighterBoxing Author:Ann Wolfe
“I was putting middleweights, Light heavy's, heavies and Super Heavy's to sleep. And it got to a point where no one would fight me, so I retired. I will never box again because I went 2 years and no one would fight me at all, zero. That's when I started training fighters.” FightingSleepTrainingFighterRetired Author:Ann Wolfe
“What people don't realize I have put 160 kids through school. I had a gym full of children. Some of those kids slept in the gym. Some of those kids lived in the gyms. I went to those kids schools. I think with the training, I can't make a fighter have that passion that I have, and it takes years to develop a fighter.” PeopleThinkingChildrenKidsSchoolPassionRealizingTrainingFighterGym Author:Ann Wolfe
“From the public's perspective, they like to see guys that go out there and stand. Now, if you happen to be one of those two athletes that are standing out there and trading with each other, afterwards you would disagree with those people. The spectators are not on the receiving end of all those strikes. I have young guys who say, "I like to stand and trade." I say, "Really? Then you are not a very intelligent fighter."” PeopleGuyPerspectiveIntelligentTradeAthleteFighterDisagreeStanding OutTrading Author:Dan Severn
“The American dream is about achieving happiness. When you become a fire fighter, a police officer or a teacher or a nurse, you know you're not going to become a billionaire. And what my parents achieved working as a bartender and a maid at a hotel after arriving here with nothing, no education, no money. The first words my dad learned in English where I'm looking for a job.You know what my parents achieved? They owned a home in a safe and stable neighborhood. They retired with dignity and they left all four of their children better off than themselves.” ChildrenHomeDreamParentTeacherAchieveDadDignityPoliceMy DadFighterHotelNeighborhoodNurseAmerican DreamRetiredBillionaireNo MoneyPolice OfficerBartender Author:Marco Rubio
“I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.” GuyIncrediblesFighterMysticismAstronautMacho Author:Lily Koppel
“My only talent is that I have a so-called big engine. I can attack on successive days - well maybe now not so often - or ride tempo at the front of the peloton for a week. I'm not a climber or a sprinter. Whatever makes the race sticky, fast and difficult is good for me. I'm just a big motor - I think I'm allowed to say that - and a fighter. I'll do whatever it takes to make the race.” ThinkingDifficultWeekTalentFighterMotorWhatever It Takes Author:Jens Voigt
“You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.” Fighter Author:Scott Adkins