Gene Tunney Quotes
Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
Gene Tunney
Quotes to Explore
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I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.
Hannibal Buress
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
Nadine Velazquez
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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
Warren Spector
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I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.
Gary Oldman
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
W. Somerset Maugham
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For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.
Edgar Ramirez
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
Harriet Harman
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Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
Omar Epps
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
Karl Pilkington
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
Larry the Cable Guy
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
Olivier Martinez
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I like running and swimming, and exercise four or five times a week, but not for long - about 30 minutes. I just exercise by myself and find that as I get older it becomes easier. In school I remember not enjoying running at all.
Arizona Muse
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I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating.
Dawn Steel
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Habit is something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A. Clark
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I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
James Boswell
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I never talk about shooting anybody, but I do acknowledge I was a member of the IRA, and as a member of the IRA, I obviously engaged in fighting back against the British army.
Martin McGuinness
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
Gene Tunney
