Larry Holmes
Boxer
"I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter."
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Fighter
336 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Richard Pryor
Comedian, Actor
"I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter."
Jim Brown
Football Player
"I don't deal in frustration. I'm a fighter. And everything I've ever gotten, I've had to fight for."
Serena Williams
Tennis Player
"I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life."
Hugo Chavez
Politician
"We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr."
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"All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps"
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"We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers."
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"A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike."
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"Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations."
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"I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban."
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"To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger."
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"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."
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"Fighters are never who they appear to be"
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"Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'"
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"The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier"
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"Fighters are fighters. We got each others backs in terms of support."
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"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."
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"My mum [who has breast cancer] is a fighter. I've got that from her, I know she's a fighter."
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"Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other."
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"Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like the characteristics of your latest fighter plane or something like that."
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"I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off."
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"The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest."
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"Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys."
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"Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter."
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"I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me."
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