Top 30 Spinks Quotes
#1. I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.
Mike Tyson
#2. The American id could not be educated, Spinks thought. It needed horror in order to stay awake and to justify its most pleasureful pursuit, the destruction of helpless people who had never done anything wrong.
Paul La Farge
#4. I am Calumny Spinks.
Between me and the satin blue sky hangs the hempen noose.
It has swung there in the faintest of breezes, waiting for me, all my life.
Piers Alexander
#5. It ain't what you do it's how you do it.
Leon Spinks
#7. I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.
Leon Spinks
#8. To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion.
Leon Spinks
#9. I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight.
Michael Spinks
#10. King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody.
Michael Spinks
#11. If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.
Leon Spinks
#12. I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
Leon Spinks
#14. I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.
Michael Spinks
#15. You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart.
Leon Spinks
#17. I had the greatest sparring partners, I had the greatest sparring team. And these guys they wrapped me up a lot. I never got the chance to get off on them.
Michael Spinks
#18. Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.
Leon Spinks
#19. If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life.
Michael Spinks
#21. I don't want the kids to go through want I went through.
Leon Spinks
#23. Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.
Leon Spinks
#24. Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam
Michael Spinks
#26. I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.
Leon Spinks
#28. God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.
Leon Spinks
#29. I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.
Leon Spinks
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