Top 51 Tunney Quotes
#1. No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.
Tommy Gibbons
#2. Dempsey could beat anybody he could hit. The only reason that he couldn't do anything with fellows like Tunney or Greb or myself was he couldn't hit us.
Tommy Gibbons
#3. One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet.
Gene Tunney
#5. Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
Gene Tunney
#6. I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity.
Robin Tunney
#7. Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
Gene Tunney
#8. A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.
Gene Tunney
#9. If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
Gene Tunney
#10. I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.
Robin Tunney
#11. But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.
Gene Tunney
#12. I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.
Robin Tunney
#13. My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.
Robin Tunney
#14. A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.
Gene Tunney
#15. I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.
Gene Tunney
#16. Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.
Gene Tunney
#17. After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.
Robin Tunney
#18. I've seen Dempsey fight and I was impressed with his lack of knowledge.
Gene Tunney
#19. I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.
Robin Tunney
#20. After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.
Robin Tunney
#21. People do eventually see something that's quality.
Robin Tunney
#22. I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.
Robin Tunney
#23. This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.
Robin Tunney
#24. Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.
Gene Tunney
#25. I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.
Robin Tunney
#26. I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
Robin Tunney
#27. I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy
Robin Tunney
#28. Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.
Robin Tunney
#29. To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
Gene Tunney
#30. In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
Gene Tunney
#31. You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.
Robin Tunney
#32. Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
Robin Tunney
#33. Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.
Gene Tunney
#34. Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.
Robin Tunney
#36. I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
Robin Tunney
#37. Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney
#38. Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute; this sluggishness, permitting poisonous waste matter to accumulate in every cell, clogs the channels of energy.
Gene Tunney
#40. Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
Gene Tunney
#41. People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.
Robin Tunney
#42. A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.
Gene Tunney
#43. The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
Gene Tunney
#44. A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
Robin Tunney
#45. The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
Gene Tunney
#46. The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.
Robin Tunney
#47. As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
Gene Tunney
#48. Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
Gene Tunney
#49. In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.
Robin Tunney
#50. I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.
Robin Tunney
#51. My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Gene Tunney
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