Marvin Hagler Quotes

When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

Marvin Hagler

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I come from a family of Catholic Italians, and that will always be in my blood.

Jenna Morasca

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I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.

John McEnroe

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There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Stephnie Weir

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I love how you can look different, and it changes your mood.

Rita Ora

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I think the mental preparation isn't something that you can work on in one large sum. It has to be a collective collaboration of doing little things for your mental state constantly throughout the prep and managing your life outside the Octagon, managing your life in transit to the Octagon, managing your life once you get to training.

Robert Whittaker

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With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.

Molly Quinn

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My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner table and going to different marches for different causes.

Jared Polis

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What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.

Joseph Brodsky

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As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.

Jose Andres

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There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.

Joichi Ito

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I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar.

Demi Lovato

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Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

Denis Leary

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