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

Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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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.
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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.
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Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
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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.
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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.
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He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
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In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.
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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.
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Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'
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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.
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.
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I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born!
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Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.
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If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
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I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.
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Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.
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Do you recognise me?" he asked. Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying "Lie down so I can recognise you.