Floyd Patterson Quotes

#1. You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome,
but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home.
A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight,
but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

Muhammad Ali

#2. Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people ... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

Floyd Patterson

#3. I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.

Floyd Patterson

#4. I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Floyd Patterson

#5. The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

Floyd Patterson

#6. We've been thinking about stage costumes for the 'Satellites' section," Burt said brightly. "I think we should all dress as an element."

Egg frowned. "How do you dress up as water?"

"I've thought about that and it would be a blue leotard and white kilt," Burt replied earnestly.

Jamie Scallion

#7. There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates.

Floyd Patterson

#8. A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

Floyd Patterson

#9. Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

Floyd Patterson

#10. When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends.

Floyd Patterson

#11. George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

Richard Perle

#12. It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

Floyd Patterson

#13. For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.

Floyd Patterson

#14. It's through traveling you make the great journey into yourself, and it's the clarity of extremes in traveling that forces you to meet yourself like you've never met yourself before.

Carew Papritz

#15. I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Cat Stevens

#16. A man acquainted with God has more power than any earthly potentate. Gold can't do everything.

D.L. Moody

#17. Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

Floyd Patterson

#18. A congressman sent a tweet that compared president Obama to Adolf Hitler. He has now apologized. It's not helping that he apologized to Hitler.

Conan O'Brien

#19. I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

Floyd Patterson