Schmeling Quotes

#1. Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.

Joe Louis

#2. Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.

Joe Louis

#3. Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare ... a big, thick book with an elegant cover ... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.

Carter Ratcliff

#4. Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

Max Schmeling

#5. I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928 ... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

Max Schmeling

#6. I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

Eric Burdon

#7. The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

Marianne Williamson

#8. Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

Owen Wilson

#9. What is the real breath of a man - the breathing out or the breathing in?

Margaret Atwood

#10. Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.

M.F. Moonzajer

#11. And when I don't feel it, it's pointless.
Think about getting up it's pointless.
Think about eating it's pointless.
Think about dressing it's pointless.
Think about speaking it's pointless.
Think about dying only it's totally
fucking pointless.

Sarah Kane

#12. Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

Nick Cave

#13. All you need to know is The Light.

C.F. Reynolds

#14. The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

James Elroy Flecker

#15. Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen ... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

Max Schmeling

#16. From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

Max Schmeling

#17. Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Max Schmeling

#18. The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.

John Foster Dulles

#19. I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Max Schmeling

#20. As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.

Damian Thompson

#21. I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

Max Schmeling