Top 35 Quotes About Jack Dempsey
#1. Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
J. Paul Getty
#2. A champion is someone who gets up when they can't.- Jack Dempsey.
R.J. Prescott
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.
Gene Tunney
#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. I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.
Jack Dempsey
#9. I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
Jack Dempsey
#10. Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.
Jack Dempsey
#11. Now I understand the depth of the sadness." William turned and looked at her. "In the painting? Adele's eyes look as though they go deeper than the back of the canvas. It's because of what she saw, because of all the people who walked by her and she was powerless to stop it.
Kristy Cambron
#12. Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
Jack Dempsey
#13. A champion is someone ho gets up,
een when he can't
Jack Dempsey
#14. We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.
Li Yizhong
#16. Smell, the sense which somehow seems a joke, is the one most susceptible to outrage. It will give you no rest. One can close one's eyes to ugliness or shield the ears from sound; but from a powerful smell there is no recourse but flight.
Robert Leckie
#17. 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
#18. I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.
Paulo Coelho
#19. By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Jack Dempsey
#20. Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
Jack Dempsey
#21. Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
Tom Freston
#22. 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
#23. I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
V.S. Naipaul
#24. A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
Jack Dempsey
#25. A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
Jack Dempsey
#26. All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Jack Dempsey
#27. Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
Jack Dempsey
#28. When you're fighting, you're righting for one thing - money.
Jack Dempsey
#33. Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
Jack Dempsey
#34. 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
#35. Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.
Klaus Fuchs
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