Chuck Wepner Quotes

I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

Chuck Wepner

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• I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunities

• Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Church
  • Lord

• Fantasy and reality often overlap.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Reality
  • Fantasy
  • Overlap

• Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

  

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
  • Life
  • Live
  • VItal

• The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major satisfactions. And relaxing afterwards is one of life’s most luxurious rewards.

  

  Colin Fletcher
  • Body
  • Driving
  • Act

• I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

  

  Ann Radcliffe
  • People
  • Judge
  • Actions

• Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Life
  • Forgiveness
  • Duty

• The best hitting advice I ever got was: Keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't; that's all.

  

  Willie Keeler
  • Advice
  • Clear
  • Hitting

• As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents, family members, bishops, advisers, and righteous friends of all ages. And if you are weary or take a wrong turn, change your direction and get back on the path of virtue. Always remember that the Savior is there for you. He will enable you to repent, strengthen you, lighten your burdens, dry your tears, comfort you, and continue to help you stay on the path.

  

  Elaine S. Dalton
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Help

• My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

  

  Nikky Finney
  • Responsibility
  • Look
  • Away

• Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

  

  Steve Scalise
  • Important
  • Bible
  • Constitution

• One blade couldn’t win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Battle
  • Protect
  • Blade

• Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Poetry
  • Teachers
  • Task

• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Changed
  • Lot
  • Survivor

• I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • Family
  • Cancer
  • Survivor

• Jane Campion is a tough director.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Tough
  • Director
  • Jane

• Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Winning
  • Making

• In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Needed
  • Iron
  • Curtains

• I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

  

  Chuck Wepner
  • Survivor
  • Muhammad Ali