Tommy Farr quotes
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“Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.”
-- Tommy FarrSource : "Wales' greatest US bouts: Tommy Farr", BBC Sport, March 31, 2008.
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“After the mines, what is fighting? Fighting is child's play”
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“As long as there's this welfare state of ours we're not going to have any good fighters”
-- Tommy Farr
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“Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.”
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“Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.”
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“There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.”
Source : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton
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