Jack Dempsey Quotes

Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. Pa? ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos. ~ Brian D'Ambrosio

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey. ~ Gene Tunney

The best defense is a good offense. ~ Jack Dempsey

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry. ~ Jack Dempsey

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end. ~ Jack Dempsey

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind. ~ Jack Dempsey

I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! I'm Alexander! He's no Alexander! I'm the best ever. There's never been anyone as ruthless as me. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah! ~ Mike Tyson

In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won. He received nothing for the fights he lost. Jack Dempsey said that in his early days he was knocked down a lot of times and he usually was tempted to stay down because he knew that no one would hit him again until he started to get up. But Jack was a hungry fighter and he knew that if he was going to eat, he must get up in order to get the two dollars. He tells of one occasion when he was knocked down 11 times in one fight, and 11 times he got up in order to win the $2. ~ Sterling W. Sill

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance. ~ Jack Dempsey

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great. ~ Jack Dempsey

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 dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand. ~ Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s. ~ J. Paul Getty

Champions get up when they can't. ~ Jack Dempsey

When you're fighting, you're righting for one thing - money. ~ Jack Dempsey

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 have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it. ~ Jack Dempsey

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 a pretty good blast when introduced. The crowd was hollering and raising hell. I looked around for my bodyguard, a colorful New York character named Wild Bill Lyons, who packed two pearl-handled pistols and used to talk a lot about his days in the West. Wild Bill was under the ring, hiding. ~ Jack Dempsey

Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport.
Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey. ~ George Aaron Barton

If you are not actively seeking the truth, you are destined to only know what people tell you, and people will only tell you what they want you to know. ~ Jack Mierop

The Third Precept, to refrain from sexual misconduct, reminds us not to act out of sexual desire in such a way as to cause harm to another ... The spirit of this precept asks us to look at the motivation behind our actions. To pay attention in this way allows us, as laypeople, to discover how sexuality can be connected to the heart and how it can be an expression of love, caring, and genuine intimacy. We have almost all been fools at some time in our sexual lives, and we have also used sex to try to touch what is beautiful, to touch another person deeply. Conscious sexuality is an essential part of living a mindful life (86). ~ Jack Kornfield

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt. ~ Jack Wagner

Girlfriends are not wives. I draw the line at married women. Actually, women married to men with guns. If someone's girlfriend wants to make herself available, that's her business. Just don't give my name to your boyfriend. ~ Jack Dancer

My life was a beanstalk and I was Jack, and the foliage was shooting up and up, abundant, impressive, at such speed that I could barely cling on. ~ Jessie Burton

It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist! ~ Jack O'Brien

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're ... sensible. ~ Jack Dee

Our three major acquisitions of recent years have all worked out exceptionally well - from both the financial and human standpoints. In all three cases, the founders were major sellers and received significant proceeds in cash - and, in all three cases, the same individuals, Jack Ringwalt, Gene Abegg and Vic Raab, have continued to run the businesses with undiminished energy and imagination which have resulted in further improvement of the fine records previously established. ~ Warren Buffett

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body ... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property. ~ Jack Kevorkian

When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy ~ Jack Ruby

Goodness is a triumph. And so it is / with love. Love is not the part / we are born with that flowers / a little and then wanes as we /
grow up. We cobble love together / from this and those of our machinery / until there is suddenly an apparition / that never existed before. ~ Jack Gilbert

How can you dream about something you haven't even seen yet? ~ Jack Castle

Officer, this guy is not waiting around for me ... so you better shoot me or help me but decide now! ~ Jack Bauer

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter. ~ Jack Johnson

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work. ~ Jack London

He did not playfully shake him, as was his wont, or murmur soft love curses; but he whispered in his ear.'As you love me, Buck. As you love me,' was what he whispered.
Call of the Wild ~ Jack London

All I wanted,' London said later, 'was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it. ~ Jack London

Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister. ~ Jason Jack Miller

I would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us ~ Jack Kerouac

I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore. ~ Elvis Presley

I hadn't thought about what any army trains for. It merely maintains itself here for no exterior purpose. ~ Allen Ginsberg

Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction. ~ Jack White

I've never laughed a woman into bed, but I've laughed one out of bed many times. ~ Jack Whitehall

Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff's troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him. ~ Joshua Micah Marshall

If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't. ~ Jack Whitehall

Treats and tricks.
Witch broomsticks.
Jack-o-lanterns
Lick their lips.

Crows and cats.
Vampire bats.
Capes and fangs
And pointed hats.

Werewolves howl.
Phantoms prowl.
Halloween's
Upon us now. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer. ~ Jack Finney

The courts are run on COMMERCIAL CONTRACT LAW and that is has NOTHING to do with any IN-LAW procedures whatsoever. So the nature of the game is to OBTAIN a CONTRACT with your OPPONENT (Adversary) so that the court can acknowledge and RATIFY the contract and SETTLE and CLOSE the case and move on and if you understand that EVERYTHING in there is happening by way of CONTRACTS instead of trying to get the truth out then MAYBE you'll get the truth to prevail by following the CORRECT procedure to get them to acknowledge the truth by CONTRACTUAL CONSENT. ~ Jack Smith

Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets. ~ Jack Welch

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world ~ Jack Kornfield

You have to look at the body of work you're doing and then figure out the best way for people to digest it. You want people to come in and listen to all of it and understand the entire project. I think it's bad when everyone's like, "This is how you have to do it." ~ Jack Antonoff

Caroline closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Standing on the foredeck of the merchant vessel The Dreamer, the misty salt air bit at her skin and caused her to clutch her shawl more firmly around her. She'd left the warmth and comfort of her cabin to find a reprieve from thoughts of Jack, but it was impossible. Beneath the smell of the ocean she could still detect his evocative masculine scent, a scent that heated her blood and made forgetting him impossible. ~ Sylvia Day

If there were no fools,' said Circumbright, 'either among us or among them, we could co-inhabit the earth.
there's the flaw in any compromise negotiation - the fact of fools, both among the Teleks and the common men. ~ Jack Vance

Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best. ~ Bernard Baruch