Barry Mcguigan Quotes

#1. By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone ... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.

Max Nordau

#2. There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.

Barry McGuigan

#3. I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Barry McGuigan

#4. What did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers.

Peter Shaffer

#5. My reading is dead!' Pilar gasped. The little girl held the fourth grade reading book, rigid as a stillborn, across her open palms as if pleading with the pretty gringa teacher to take the burden away.

Janiece Hopper

#6. The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

Marilu Henner

#7. While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

Barry McGuigan

#8. 250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

Barry McGuigan

#9. The price of this story was the audience's innocence.

Tom Rob Smith

#10. I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Barry McGuigan

#11. What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

Barry McGuigan

#12. I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.

Barry McGuigan

#13. No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. I'd expected that I would expand to fit the experience automatically, that I would get my first glimpse of the person I was destined to be.

Diane Setterfield

#15. It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.

Barry McGuigan

#16. Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Barry McGuigan

#17. Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

Barry McGuigan

#18. Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

Kate Christensen

#19. Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

Barry McGuigan

#20. Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

Barry McGuigan

#21. I'd turned into a giant ball of questions and conflicts and desires. I'd pretty much become my biggest nightmare. I was a rougher version of Jesse Walker. But a better looking one. A far better looking one.

Nicole Williams

#22. Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

George Herbert

#23. Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind ... then what is the difference between this world and a dream?

Kaori Ozaki

#24. There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.

Barton Gellman

#25. This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Carter G. Woodson

#26. Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

Barry McGuigan

#27. Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap.

George Lucas

#28. I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

Barry McGuigan

#29. The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

Barry McGuigan

#30. If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

Barry McGuigan

#31. A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

Barry McGuigan

#32. It's always fun to try something new, and to play a new character, and it's fun to play another period.

James Scott

#33. I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

Barry McGuigan

#34. What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

Barry McGuigan

#35. I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

Barry McGuigan