Top 34 Quotes About Rocky Marciano
#1. Rocky Marciano had such guts and heart. He was something special.
Robert Goulet
#2. Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.
Rocky Marciano
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.
Robert Goulet
#6. 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
#8. I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.
Dave Matthews
#9. 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
#10. The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
Scott Westerfeld
#11. I don't want to be remembered as a beaten champion.
Rocky Marciano
#12. 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
#13. The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart.
The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word.
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
Pierre De Coubertin
#14. It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.
Ali Khamenei
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?
Rocky Marciano
#19. 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
#20. Good lord. Building stone patios, chopping wood, and walking everywhere was a workout video he needed to put on the market. ASAP.
Mia Sheridan
#22. What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?
Rocky Marciano
#23. Toxemia. A word that starts so harsh and ends so gently.
Emma Hooper
#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.
Rocky Marciano
#28. 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
#29. If you have been sick for a long, long time, Prozac may make you high. It probably won't make you, never quite managed to be a part of, but a world, nevertheless, that you at first fit into with the precision of a key to a lock or a neurotransmitter to its receptor.
Lauren Slater
#30. The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#31. I'd be conceited if I said I could, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't.
Rocky Marciano
#32. Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.
Lyall Watson
#33. There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...
Nancy Mitford
#34. The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll
