Jack Dempsey quotes
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“A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”
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“When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.”
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“Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.”
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“You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.”
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“By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.”
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“All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.”
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“I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.”
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“Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.”
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“For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was fighting. I got a pretty good blast when introduced. The crowd was hollering and raising hell. I looked around for my bodyguard, a colorful New York character named Wild Bill Lyons, who packed two pearl-handled pistols and used to talk a lot about his days in the West. Wild Bill was under the ring, hiding.”
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“I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.”
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“Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.”
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“I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.”
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“A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.”
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“A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.”
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“Honey, I just forgot to duck.”
-- Jack DempseySource : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 Feb. 1927. Said to his wife after losing the world heavyweight boxing championship to Gene Tunney, 23 Sept. 1926. President Ronald W. Reagan joked to his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck!" after John Hinckley tried to assassinate him 30 Mar. 1981.
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“When you're fighting, you're righting for one thing - money.”
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“Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.”
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