Take The Punches Quotes

#1. I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.

Larry Holmes

#2. There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#3. I'm not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#4. He takes the guilt and responsibility that others can't. John takes the punches. I just take the hunger, and most times it feels like awful little.

A.C. Gaughen

#5. And you do look beautiful, Lily. Beautiful things should be admired. Let me admire in peace.

Bethany-Kris

#6. My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

Harriet Jacobs

#7. I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me.

Michael Graves

#8. 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

#9. My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.

Wladimir Klitschko

#10. I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

Larry Holmes

#11. Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.

Jo Nesbo

#12. Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#13. Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.

Josh Turner

#14. Enjoy that you can see me now. I would love to see the great Michael Jordan and Julius Erving in their younger days, but they're gone. Look at me at 50, I'm going to eat right and live right so I can take less punches and look normal.

Bernard Hopkins

#15. Whether I moved people to throw punches or cry, I did that through my art and what I do. I would never take that experience away to race against a speedometer. Or play on a team.

Johnny Weir

#16. A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

Meg Ryan

#17. O brethren! It is easier to chide at sin, than to overcome it.

Richard Baxter

#18. Fight the Fight and Never Accept Defeat...
Life is like a three minute round. Step into that ring, feel the adrenaline,throw your punches and take them, respect your opposition; and win or lose, remember you went in fighting and came out a winner!

Carol Gambill

#19. Obama seems like he tries to talk everyone into what he believes - and that's part of why we elected him, because he's a calm, reasonable guy - but behind that, there has to be some fight. You have to be able to take a few punches and throw a few punches.

Dee Dee Myers

#20. The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.

Larry Holmes

#21. For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one.

Dan Kimball

#22. Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

Charles Spurgeon

#23. For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it's a left, I'll take it. If it's a right I'll take it.

Nonito Donaire

#24. See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.

Yagyu Munenori

#25. Life with through punches at you and sometimes knock you down. Learn to take the hit ,but more importantly learn to get back up and keep punching every single day!

Jerry Gladstone