Top 100 Dempsey Quotes
#1. If there is a less likely sight on this earth than Clint Dempsey, the Texas trailer-park kid, doing downward-facing dog poses, or the stalwart Michael Bradley deep breathing through a tree pose, I have yet to see it.
Tim Howard
#2. I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali
#3. Turning to Turnip, Miss Dempsey said, 'Do you think?'. 'As little as I can,' Turnip replied honestly.
Lauren Willig
#4. Dempsey could beat anybody he could hit. The only reason that he couldn't do anything with fellows like Tunney or Greb or myself was he couldn't hit us.
Tommy Gibbons
#5. Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.
Roger Kahn
#6. I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.
Rocky Graziano
#7. Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.
George Vecsey
#8. I have to say I love Dempsey's Brew Pub & Restaurant. It's gorgeous with that Camden Yard brick surrounding it, and it just screams Baltimore. I love the Black and Orange Burger that is topped with fresh orange bell peppers, caramelized onions and sharp cheddar cheese.
Johnathon Schaech
#9. Can you get any better than Patrick Dempsey? I don't think so!
Ellen Pompeo
#10. Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
J. Paul Getty
#11. Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
Patrick Dempsey
#12. A champion is someone who gets up when they can't.- Jack Dempsey.
R.J. Prescott
#13. Florence Dempsey, played by Torchy Blane actress Glenda Farrell, goes so far as to memorably declare to her friend Charlotte in The Mystery of the Wax Museum, "You raise the kids; I'll raise the roof!
Erika Janik
#14. For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.
John Huston
#15. Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United.
Alan Brazil
#16. Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. Pa?
Joyce Carol Oates
#17. You my door gunner?" Dempsey said. "Door gunner, aircrew, combat medic, and ass kicker, sir." "PJ?
Jeffrey Wilson
#18. I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.
Gene Tunney
#19. I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.
Gene Tunney
#20. Have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to?
just turn over everything you had?
-Davy Dempsey-
Jennifer Crusie
#21. I could not have written this book the way I wanted to without the insight of one such friend, Brent Dempsey. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being so generous with your time and for helping me get it right. I solemnly swear to never again use the words stakeout or perp.
Julie James
#23. Who needs the fairy tale when crazy, messy, sexy reality with the woman I adore is a million times better?
Kate Meader
#24. When it comes to popping pills, probably 90 percent bad. And people say they're not addictive - I still have yearnings for them. Especially after a few pints. I don't think you ever lose the yearning for them.
Damien Dempsey
#25. I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
Patrick Dempsey
#26. The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.
Tom Dempsey
#27. I'm an open Minded Man. How about a threesom? You, me and the machine?
Jennifer Crusie
#28. Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#29. Kids take you outside your comfort level because you ask yourself, 'How do I answer that question for them?' You think back to your childhood, and it's like: I don't want to give them that, I want to give them this. My life is my children.
Patrick Dempsey
#30. The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.
Patrick Dempsey
#31. Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.
Kate Meader
#32. Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
Jack Dempsey
#34. I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
Patrick Dempsey
#36. I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
Patrick Dempsey
#37. Not an agent kiss, not anything remotely resembling a peck-on-the-cheek kiss, but a let's-get-started kiss. One that even in hardened, love-tired Los Angeles had a better-than-even shot of producing a happy finish
Diana Dempsey
#38. She leaned in, a tip she had read today on HuffPo's Love & Sex section. Boobs out, smile wide, voice low.
Being sexy was exhausting.
Kate Meader
#39. I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans, and without that you don't have a career.
Patrick Dempsey
#40. I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey
#43. Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don't. Not all people are going to like you and you have to come to [terms] with that.
Patrick Dempsey
#44. The hurricane flooded me out of a lot of memorabilia, but it can't flood out the memories.
Tom Dempsey
#45. When you're fighting, you're righting for one thing - money.
Jack Dempsey
#46. Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
Jack Dempsey
#48. I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
Patrick Dempsey
#51. Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
Patrick Dempsey
#52. And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
Patrick Dempsey
#53. My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.
Damien Dempsey
#54. All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Jack Dempsey
#55. I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
Patrick Dempsey
#56. A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
Jack Dempsey
#58. People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
Patrick Dempsey
#59. My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
Patrick Dempsey
#60. Come with me, and I shall become your everything.
L.J. Dempsey
#61. The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.
Clint Dempsey
#62. You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime.
Martin Dempsey
#63. If there are threats to the United States, then I would of course go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground force.
Martin Dempsey
#64. I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
Patrick Dempsey
#65. A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
Jack Dempsey
#66. The only way to get over the last fall is to jump back on the horse and keep riding.
Eoin Dempsey
#67. 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.
Jack Dempsey
#68. Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
Patrick Dempsey
#69. As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.
Patrick Dempsey
#70. When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
Patrick Dempsey
#71. I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.
Jack Dempsey
#72. I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
Jack Dempsey
#73. Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.
Jack Dempsey
#74. I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.
Damien Dempsey
#75. All you can do is play how you know how to play.
Clint Dempsey
#76. With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
Patrick Dempsey
#78. In order to run, an engine must have spark, fuel, and at least 60 psi of compression. One or more of these prerequisites is lacking if a cold engine refuses to start after three or four pulls on the starter cord.
Paul K. Dempsey
#79. My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
Patrick Dempsey
#80. Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
Jack Dempsey
#82. How pointless, harboring romantic fantasies about a man who'd made it abundantly clear that he wasn't interested.
Diana Dempsey
#83. A champion is someone ho gets up,
een when he can't
Jack Dempsey
#84. I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
Patrick Dempsey
#85. I'm really happy to have a family and a life outside of the business.
Patrick Dempsey
#86. The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.
Patrick Dempsey
#87. One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
Patrick Dempsey
#89. With competition there is always ego and hubris ... competition gets in the way of work.
Patrick Dempsey
#90. One of the floral arrangements swayed like a drunken sailor, then toppled, clattering to the floor.
Diana Dempsey
#91. If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
Patrick Dempsey
#92. This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.
Martin Dempsey
#93. I only think of you once a day; however that thought starts when I open my eyes in the morning and stops when I close them at night.
Alan Dempsey
#94. She pushed him back to the desk, poking his chest.
I may punch you, bite you, crush your nuts between my thighs. It's going to be the best hate sex I've ever had. And your survival is not my first concern.
Kate Meader
#95. When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.
Patrick Dempsey
#96. Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
Patrick Dempsey
#97. 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.
Jack Dempsey
#98. Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.
Clint Dempsey
#99. friends to the dining hall as guests and pay for their food. I suspect that for some of these kids, that was the main meal they
Bobbi Dempsey
#100. Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
Patrick Dempsey
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