Brett Gelman Quotes

I'm not a fighter. I don't like to get beat up.

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• I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Give
  • Fighter

• For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Important
  • Fight

• I'm confident in the fighter I am, and I have nothing to worry about.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Worry
  • Confident
  • Fighter

• I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Never
  • Working
  • Fighter

• I want the ones that stood up for the Tea Party when the Tea Party was being pilloried by the mainstream media. I like the Bachmanns and the Palins and the Wests and I like the Herman Cains, I like Thaddeus McCotter, I like fighters, and I don't like the poll-tested ones.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Up
  • Party
  • Tea

• Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Family
  • Planning

• I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

  

  Margaret Anderson
  • Causes
  • Fighter
  • Suggestion

• An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Successful
  • Luck
  • Fighter

• I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

  

  George Foreman
  • Boxing
  • Nervous
  • Fighter

• I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Dance
  • Win
  • Fighter

• I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly...Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Pain
  • Fighter
  • Beat

• Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Sport
  • Fighter

• Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Fighter
  • Except

• The best fighter is never angry.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Angry
  • Fighter

• The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Hero
  • Fighter
  • Coward

• I do know that I can take a punch. I've been punched in the face three times. That's, I think, a really important thing to know about yourself. It helps you in life. It helps you be brave when you know you can take a punch. I'm a lover, not a fighter. But, God bless me, I can take a punch.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Helping

• I never had a dime to my name before I became a fighter. I never had friends before, or respect. Now when people see me on the street, they turn around and say, "Ain't that Sonny Liston, the fighter?

  

  Sonny Liston
  • People
  • Say
  • Now

• I just want to be a fighter. I just like to win fights.

  

  Holly Holm
  • Fighter
  • Fights

• Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Company
  • Innocent
  • Corporations

• There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

  

  Sophocles
  • Evil
  • Fortune
  • Constraint

• I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

  

  Boots Riley
  • Writing
  • Wanted
  • Sexist

• I'm not a fighter. I don't like to get beat up.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Fighter