Sparred Quotes

#1. I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

Rick Moody

#2. I trained as hard as I could, I ran as much as I could, I sparred hard, I did everything right. I did everything I could possibly do at the age when I could fight. You have to be realistic; you can't say, 'Oh, I am smarter now, older and I can punch harder.' You think you can, but you can't.

Micky Ward

#3. When I was fighting Tyrell Biggs, Tyson was telling me at ringside to hit him to the ribs. We always had a mutual respect for each other since we sparred those early times. We got that over with.

Lennox Lewis

#4. 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

#5. I've sparred with lots of people and played around with everybody.

Tyson Fury

#6. Inspiration is allowed to do whatever it wants to, in fact, and it is never obliged to justify its motives to any of us.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. Anyone with a Purpose Can Make a Difference

Zig Ziglar

#8. So I stare at the beautiful brand-new crinoline dress that's mine alone with no whiff of mothballs. Even so, it droops a little.

Fanny Britt

#9. That the only Indians who went on trial were

Katherine Boo

#10. Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75
Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling cauldron of life itself, threw up both good and evil. Greed, madness, cruelty and indifference were countered by goodness, devotion, self-sacrifice, and courage. p 178

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#11. Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.

Wallace D. Wattles

#12. If you really believe that you deserve better, work on you, not them.

Bobby Williams