Top 51 Quotes About Amato
#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
Cus D'Amato
#2. 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
#3. [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
#4. Daniello, you do not like the bread? Eat! ...per favore, have some pasticcio di gnocchi alla boscaiola!"
"As long as you don't ask me to repeat the name," Dan replied.
Luna Amato chuckled. "Charming boy."
"Handsome, too," Dan said.
Peter Lerangis
#5. I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior.
Madi Diaz
#6. Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.
William Greider
#7. If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
P. J. O'Rourke
#8. Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
Bernie Sanders
#9. So I took the advice of one of my graduate teachers, Dr. Anthony Amato: "When in doubt, read to them.
Frank Stepnowski
#10. When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.
Anna Quindlen
#11. Genes are little items that are found in every living thing except Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.
Dave Barry
#12. hi my name is luke, it rhymes with puke!
Mary Amato
#13. The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.
Al D'Amato
#14. Maybe it explains the reason why one person likes another. It's because their souls both thrum at the same frequency.
Mary Amato
#15. Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be - and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can't cut and run.
Al D'Amato
#16. Her checkbook catches his eye. He takes it and hides it in the back of the freezer, underneath a bag of frozen lima beans. If she can freeze his account, he can freeze hers.
Mary Amato
#17. Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.
Al D'Amato
#18. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#19. As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
Al D'Amato
#20. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#21. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#22. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#23. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#24. The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.
Giuliano Amato
#25. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#26. The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.
Cus D'Amato
#27. You do realize that you are a termite. You are eating through my soul.
Mary Amato
#28. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#29. No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.
Al D'Amato
#30. When she talks to Tripp, something nice happens inside of her: a vibration, a thrum. It's as if a tiny wind chime is suspended inside her soul, she thinks, and his words are the wind that makes it ring.
Mary Amato
#31. The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.
Giuliano Amato
#32. Because Tyler isn't who I thought he was. And that means I'm not who I thought I was." I fought to keep my voice steady. "I know this might now make sense to you. But I have to put him back together. Or I can't put myself back together.
Danielle Mages Amato
#33. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#34. Let me tell you, you can paint pictures and get people indicted for just about anything.
Al D'Amato
#35. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#36. Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you
Cus D'Amato
#38. 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.
Cus D'Amato
#39. You have to go to where you can make money, and you see in the service area, in the technological area, those are the areas where we're going to create jobs.
Al D'Amato
#40. Losers are winners who quit, ... even if you lose ... you still win ... if you don't quit.
Cus D'Amato
#41. People who are born round don't die square.
Cus D'Amato
#42. They were lucky to find each other. Nobody could take that away.
Mary Amato
#43. The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.
Cus D'Amato
#44. We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.
Al D'Amato
#45. It's not that hard to donate the seed, try carrying the fucking kid for once.
Kimberly Amato
#46. Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.
Cus D'Amato
#47. Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down.
Cus D'Amato
#48. To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
Cus D'Amato
#49. That's when he'd run and run until he was nothing more than two feet and a pair of lungs, until he coughed blood and stank of sweat and forgot for an hour or two everything that he was and what he had to do and the people who'd get hurt along the way.
Carmen Amato
#50. 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.
Cus D'Amato
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