Joe Louis quotes
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“There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.”
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“Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.”
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“I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.”
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“I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.”
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“I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.”
-- Joe LouisSource : Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt
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“You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.”
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“A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming†happens during his daily routine.”
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“I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.”
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“The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.”
-- Joe LouisSource : Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt
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“Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.”
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“When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.”
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“You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.”
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“Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.”
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“The whole damned country was depending on me.”
-- Joe LouisSource : Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt
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“Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.”
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“The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love”
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“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.”
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“We're going to do our part and we'll win because we're on God's side.”
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“Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.”
-- Joe LouisSource : Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt
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“Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.”
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“Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten”
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“Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?”
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“He can run, but he can't hide.”
-- Joe LouisSource : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 June 1946.
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