Willie Pep Quotes

Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.

Willie Pep

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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
  • Man
  • Beginning
  • Sports

• Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Good
  • Lying
  • Pressure

• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Lying
  • Almost
  • Spy

• 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
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Star

• There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Boxing

• Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Boxing
  • Big
  • Then

• I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Brother

• You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Day

• He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Boxing

• Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Life
  • Important
  • Movie

• Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'

  

  Peter Berg
  • Angry
  • Boxing

• Any UFC fighter, and any fighter going into the boxing ring and can do what they do in the UFC, nine out of 10 won't be victorious and vice-versa, with a boxer coming from - even myself - coming over to that field will be a fish trying to be in a jungle and survive. It's not going to happen.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Trying
  • Boxing

• I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Help
  • Action
  • Boxing

• I think when people twitter 20 or 30 times per day, that's too much. They are boxing everyone else out, and people stop following them because they need a break.

  Biz Stone
  • People
  • Stop
  • Boxing

• Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Country
  • Free
  • Boy

• Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Men
  • Value
  • Fighting

• I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

  

  Mary Kom
  • Family
  • Boxing

• I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Bad
  • Wish
  • Football

• Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Death
  • Movies

• We actually might get a lot of letters and phone calls from normal society.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Society
  • Normal
  • Letters

• You have to work hard in the industry. I didn't come into the industry and into the business and to do what I do to become famous. But I knew in the back of my head that if fame came along with it, that was a blessing. I love when someone recognizes me or wants an autograph. But for me it was about working rather than being a 'star'.

  

  John Barrowman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Star

• I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Responsibility
  • Model
  • Decisions

• Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.

  

  Willie Pep
  • Lying
  • Boxing
  • Recognise