Gene Tunney Quotes

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

Gene Tunney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1897 - November 7, 1978

Topics

BoxingMoreKidReasonSideWest

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

Jerry Moran

ScienceMathematicsFightPeople

Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.

John Lee Hancock

PowerThinkSaidSayVirtueNever

I'm a businessman. I'm a former legislator, and I'm an executive. And I've been very effective in each one of those positions.

Matt Rosendale

ExecutiveBeenBusinessmanEffective

Most youth are lacking critical life skills that make them employable and, most importantly, able to keep a job - things like teamwork, decision-making, and time management.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

LifeTimeJobTeamworkYouthSkills

My dad was always the soldier I wanted to be.

Stanley A. McChrystal

AlwaysSoldierWantedDad

If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

Simon Cowell

MarriageRelationshipThinkYouBack

I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

Courteney Cox

PeopleThinkSushiWantSome People

How do we refresh our language? Why do we still use, like, a 150-year-old classification system to talk about people? It's so weird! We still call people black and white?

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Black And WhitePeopleBlackLanguage

Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.

Ari Graynor

WorkLearningBestPeopleGreenYou

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.

Anthony Hopkins

MusicCollegeActingStudentDrama

I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!

William Lashner

GoingDinnersAuthor

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Peter Jennings

LifeFatherMy LifeDoneWellThing

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