Jack Dempsey Quotes

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• A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.
• When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two…
• When you're fighting, you're righting for one thing - money.
• For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was fighting. I got…
• Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.
• Honey, I just forgot to duck.
• Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
• I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.
• Champions get up when they can't.
• A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
• I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
• You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but…
• I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers…
• A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
• By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
• Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
• All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
• A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
• Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

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