Sonny Liston famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.
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A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
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My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.
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If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.
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Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice.
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It don't matter as long as he can count up to 10
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The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.
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How would you like to find out how good my right is?
-- Sonny Liston
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.
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I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?
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Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.
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You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.
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I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they can reach it. Sometimes luck shines on them and sometimes it doesn't. I also think accidents happen and we are placed in situations where we have to do things for those we love that we don't want to do.
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When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
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The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!
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Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
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In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
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