Cus D Amato Quotes

#1. The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. - Cus D'Amato

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#2. [Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything

Mike Tyson

#3. MIKE WOULD LIKE TO THANK: Cus D'Amato, my mentor, friend, and general. Because of you, my life has reached heights I could never have imagined. Without you, I don't know where I would be today. My gratitude to you is immeasurable.

Mike Tyson

#4. Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

Andre Gide

#5. A true friend friendship is hard to find a true friend friendship is rare like an ancient gem

Marcelle Hinkson

#6. Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan himself.

Duke Ellington

#7. Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

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#8. I've always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can't live for a second without hope.

Brendan Rodgers

#9. No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

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#10. I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.

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#11. Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

Dana Gioia

#12. Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.

May Sarton

#13. If you can hit your opponent with two punches, you don't hit him with one. Get off with some bad intentions in there. Believe in yourself. A guy can feel it if you don't believe in yourself. Set your mind to make yourself do it.

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#14. Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

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#15. Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife ...

Judy Sheindlin

#16. There is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It's what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same, but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.

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#17. Religious work can be done by natural men without the gifts of the Spirit, and it can be done well and skillfully.

A.W. Tozer

#18. When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

Jay Mohr

#19. The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

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#20. A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

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#21. People who are born round don't die square.

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#22. There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.

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#23. Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions.

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#24. Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you

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#25. I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.'

Gina Bellman

#26. A fighter has to know fear.

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#27. I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.

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#28. Losers are winners who quit, ... even if you lose ... you still win ... if you don't quit.

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#29. The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man.

David Yonggi Cho

#30. Life here is probationary. It is man's duty to become the master, not the slave of nature. His appetites are to be controlled and used for the benefit of his health and the prolongation of his life-his passions mastered and controlled for the happiness and blessing of others.

David O. McKay

#31. The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

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#32. Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

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#33. Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.

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#34. The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

Rudyard Kipling

#35. To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

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#36. Even the smallest light can grow until there's no darkness left.

Gena Showalter

#37. When two men step into the ring, one and only one deserves to win. When you step into the ring, you gotta know you deserve to win. You gotta know destiny owes you victory , cause you trained harder than your opponent. You sparred harder. You ran farther.

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