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"A lot of the time you have good fighters with good records, some top-class fighters, and they do some kind of crazy stuff, and there's nothing that you can do to stop them from doing it. That's the hardest part of training others."
"I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen."
"…not a fighter… an adventurer. He doesn’t attack, he engages; He doesn’t defend, he expands; He doesn’t destroy, he transforms; He doesn’t reject, he explores; …."
"I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet."
"No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?"
"Am I no a bonny fighter?"
"Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority."
"Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis."
"In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . . Stalin's works should, as before, be seriously studied . . . [to] see what is correct and what is not."
"The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down."
"Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. Thats what he'll be remembered for. But good boxing doesnt work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he'd come a cropper some day."
"I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world."
"For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter."
"Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both."
"I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven"
