Top 68 Marciano Quotes
#1. It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.
Angelo Dundee
#2. 'Anna Nicole' came from Guess Jeans; Paul Marciano and me and one of his friends, we were sitting around coming up with a stage name, and that's where that came from.
Anna Nicole Smith
#3. The greatness of Marciano in the ring was defined by the way he prepared for a fight, his ability to punch and take a punch.
Rocky Marciano
#4. You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.
Larry Holmes
#5. And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.
Robert Goulet
#6. Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.
Joe Frazier
#7. A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.
Steve Sabol
#8. Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.
Rocky Marciano
#9. Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special.
Robert Goulet
#10. Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood
Rocky Marciano
#11. The campaigns and the models in them create the fantasy around the brand. It has always been about having strong images. Without that, we could not have gone into all the categories we did. It really has been the foundation from where the house of Guess was built.
Paul Marciano
#12. I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.
Rocky Marciano
#13. There is no doubt that man is a competitive animal and there is no place where this fact is more obvious than in the ring. There is no second place. Either you win or you lose. When they call you a champion, it's because you don't lose. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body.
Rocky Marciano
#14. I'm feeling like Billy the Kidd, skinny B.I.G.
You literally live like a guinea pig
Roc Marciano
#15. What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?
Francesca Marciano
#17. Such simple questions as How many feet are in a mile? or What's the number of square feet in an acre? produce the not-so-simple answers of 5,280 and 43,560.
John Bemelmans Marciano
#18. We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.
Francesca Marciano
#19. It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.
Francesca Marciano
#20. You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.
Francesca Marciano
#21. When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.
Paul Marciano
#22. When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.
Francesca Marciano
#23. I got Lamborghini dreams, eastside nightmares
Movin white ... my ice is cool as the night air
Roc Marciano
#24. We had just recently moved to California from Italy, and while we were driving around, we saw a billboard ad for McDonald's on Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles. The word 'guess' was in the ad, and my brother decided that that would be the name of our company!
Paul Marciano
#25. A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.
Francesca Marciano
#26. When images are in black and white, they seem timeless. When you see Carrie Otis in an ad from 1989 next to an ad with Klara Wester from 2009, you don't see a 20-year difference between the pictures.
Paul Marciano
#27. When the waif look first came into fashion, Anna Nicole Smith was in the Guess campaigns looking like a real woman. A girl who looks too thin and unhealthy does not look sexy to me, and she does not look right for Guess.
Paul Marciano
#28. I wish I could say that Carla Bruni's Guess campaign at age 16 led to her current role as First Lady of France, but that might be a stretch.
Paul Marciano
#29. Guess will always be loyal and true to its roots.
Paul Marciano
#30. I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling.
Rocky Marciano
#31. I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.
Rocky Marciano
#32. Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?
Rocky Marciano
#33. Liston is like most big bullies, if you can stay away and make him miss for a few rounds he'll get frustrated. Once you strip away that feeling of invincibility, he can be had.
Rocky Marciano
#34. The nature of anything truly enchanting has to be as light as a whiff of air.
Francesca Marciano
#37. Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.
Francesca Marciano
#39. You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.
Francesca Marciano
#40. I think part of me doesn't want to remember him, for fear of missing him too much.
Francesca Marciano
#41. I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.
Rocky Marciano
#42. Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.
Francesca Marciano
#43. Since the day we started Guess, the brand has always stood for young, sexy and adventurous, and it is these same qualities that I look for in the models that become Guess Girls. They also have to look healthy.
Paul Marciano
#44. That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?!
Rocky Marciano
#45. Drew Barrymore's Guess shoot took place as she was making the transition to serious actress after having been more known as a child actress who had become overwhelmed by the Hollywood lifestyle.
Paul Marciano
#46. Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above.
Francesca Marciano
#47. Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.
Francesca Marciano
#48. We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution.
Sonia Marciano
#49. Are you lovers?"
"Excuse me?"
"Do you mind my asking you?"
"Yes."
"It's off the record."
"Then why do you need to know?"
Daniel Moore smiled. A large, happy smile.
"Because I would like to ask you to dinner.
Francesca Marciano
#50. I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.
Rocky Marciano
#52. It's definitely an honour and a dream to be able to go out there and have all the people in the stands cheering for you it's a great feeling and I cant wait to get the Olympics started.
Meghan Agosta-Marciano
#53. I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets.
Francesca Marciano
#54. Whenever she walked along the streets of Manhattan, she looked at all the different faces coming toward her and, despite their different features and colors, she regarded them all as Americans.
Francesca Marciano
#55. You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.
Francesca Marciano
#56. Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.
Francesca Marciano
#58. I strongly believe that the heritage of Guess is rooted in denim, and the Guess girl looks to us for iconic and sexy styles.
Paul Marciano
#60. These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.
Francesca Marciano
#61. I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.
Francesca Marciano
#62. Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.
Rocky Marciano
#64. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.
Rocky Marciano
#66. When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and usually resort to cheap psychology. A sense of fatalism is the only form of relief left.
Francesca Marciano
#67. I didn't go there lightly. I knew even then that this was the beginning of something very hard to reverse. But I couldn't do otherwise now: I was too possessed
Francesca Marciano
#68. What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?
Rocky Marciano
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