Max Schmeling quotes
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“I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.”
-- Max SchmelingSource : Max Schmeling (1998). “Max Schmeling: An Autobiography”, Taylor Trade Publishing
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“Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.”
-- Max SchmelingSource : Max Schmeling (1998). “Max Schmeling: An Autobiography”, Taylor Trade Publishing
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“I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.”
-- Max SchmelingSource : Max Schmeling (1998). “Max Schmeling: An Autobiography”, Taylor Trade Publishing
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“From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.”
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“I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?”
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“Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.”
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“Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!”
-- Max Schmeling
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Source : "Fame and Fingernails as a TV Mobster's Wife". Interview with Robin Finn, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2001.
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“I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.”
Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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