Backgrounds Quote by Cus D'Amato

“I never teach until I've spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there.”

Cus D'Amato

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Backgrounds Boxing Core Determine Emotional Fighter Firsts Layers Peeling Persons States Teach Wells

More by Cus D'Amato

Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw…

Cus D'Amato

Image

There are very few new things in this world, very few. That's why people that are young, if they're smart, try to profit from…

Cus D'Amato

Image

I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave?…

Cus D'Amato

Image

Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he's not afraid, if I believed him I'd…

Cus D'Amato

Image

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and…

Cus D'Amato

Image

If you can hit your opponent with two punches, you don't hit him with one. Get off with some bad intentions in there. Believe…

Cus D'Amato

Image

Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means…

Cus D'Amato

Image

Losers are winners who quit,...even if you lose...you still win...if you don't quit.

Cus D'Amato

Image

Boxing is a sport of self-control. You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. Fear is like fire. You can make it work…

Cus D'Amato

Image

When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit,…

Cus D'Amato

Image

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

Cus D'Amato

Image

When two men step into the ring, one and only one deserves to win. When you step into the ring, you gotta know you…

Cus D'Amato

Image

Explore all 29 Cus D'Amato quotes

More Backgrounds quotes

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our…

Steven Biko

Image

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

Jenna Morasca

Image

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

John Wimber

Image

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be…

Michael Eisner

Image

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And…

Kathleen Battle

Image

The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes…

Carol Higgins Clark

Image

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who…

William James

Image

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and…

Billy Graham

Image

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.…

Billy Taylor

Image

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly…

Chogyam Trungpa

Image

People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

Margaret Thatcher

Image

Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the…

Dallin H. Oaks

Image

Browse all 1,645 Backgrounds quotes

Backgrounds Quote by Cus D'Amato

Related quotes

More by Cus D'Amato

More Backgrounds quotes