Joe Louis Quotes

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed. ~ Tommy Farr

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. ~ Muhammad Ali

All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out. ~ Wladimir Klitschko

I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you. ~ Bill Laimbeer

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you. ~ Joe Louis

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race. ~ Jimmy Cannon

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better. ~ Joe Louis

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves. ~ Joe Louis

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show. ~ Scotty Moore

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any. ~ Joe Louis

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money. ~ Joe Louis

Joe Louis once said, "Every fighter has a plan until they get hit. ~ Thomas J. Dorsey

I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis ~ Joe Louis

Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either Gene Tunney or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner. This is the smallest caliber pistol cartridge made; but it is also one of the most accurate and easy to hit with, since the pistol has no recoil. I have killed many horses with it, cripples and bear baits, with a single shot, and what will kill a horse will kill a man. I have hit six dueling silhouettes in the head with it at regulation distance in five seconds. It was this type of pistol that Millen boys' colleague, Abe Faber, did all his killings with. Yet this same pistol bullet fired at point blank range will not dent a grizzly's skull, and to shoot a grizzly with a .22 caliber pistol would simply be one way of committing suicide ~ Ernest Hemingway,

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it. ~ Joe Louis

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford. ~ Walter Mosley

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves. ~ Joe Louis

Joe Louis was one of my first heroes. ~ Robert Goulet

I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves. ~ Joe Louis

Everyone has a plan until they've been hit. ~ Joe Louis

I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title. ~ Joe Louis

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His "becoming" happens during his daily routine. ~ Joe Louis

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them. ~ Joe Louis

Joe has sense enough to know
He is a god.
So many gods don't know. ~ Langston Hughes

It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it. ~ Angelo Dundee

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. ~ Max Baer

Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten ~ Joe Louis

Joe Louis was one of my closest friends ... I'm a great boxing fan. I used to go to the American Legion Stadium in Hollywood, every Friday night for 15 years. Down the aisle would come Lupe Velez, Johnny Weismuller, Mae West. All at ringside. ~ Mickey Rooney

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen ... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing. ~ Max Schmeling

If you cheat on your road work in the dark of the morning, you will be found out in the big fight under the bright lights. ~ Joe Louis

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody. ~ Joe Louis

I cannot imagine not reading. Some books, of course, are like lovers; you go to bed with them once and fall asleep immediately ... But other books become house guests. THey take up residence in the rooms of the mond and never leave. ~ Joe Bennett

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people. ~ Joe Slovo

Rise & set, ebb & flow; the rhythms of our world. ~ Cathryn Louis

I suddenly saw how each life's joy and pain were made just exactly right for that life so that they fit that life perfectly like its own skin. And so no other body could possibly get in and try it on for itself because every other body had its own perfect skin too.

And the more you could stand the more you'd be given, so you were always filled right up to your own personal limit where one more drop, which you could count on, would push it over the edge. And so you would somehow have to find the way to contain it too, that one drop too many, and maybe just to see how much you could actually bear. And whether your capacity be a thimbleful or the whole damn ocean, the well of your precious collected humor be it tears today or your life's blood tomorrow will surely drown the fragile flame of your existence given the addition of that inevitable next drop. Unless you grow. Unless you become big enough to still hold it all.

And so like it or not, you would learn what you were given the breath of life to learn. You would learn what you unknowingly came here to learn. And your sorrow and grief and your joys and pleasures too would teach you your lessons in a curriculum devised just precisely for you. ~ Joe Henry

Whenever I have a little time off, I try to go back to my farm in South Africa. I'll spend time with my family and hunt antelope, kudu and springbok. During a 2010 hunting trip, I tore some ligaments in my ankle when I stepped in a hole. ~ Louis Oosthuizen

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see. ~ Joe Arpaio

I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics . ~ Michael Stipe

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head. ~ Muhammad Ali

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment. ~ Joe Namath

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. ~ Edwin Louis Cole

I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career. ~ Joe Perry

Christ is the ground of our masculinity. He took Adamic humanity into the grave with him, and emerged with a new way to be human, and a renewed way of being a man. ~ Joe Rigney

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice. ~ Joe Sakic

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

he sees a place where he will passively fade away, like wallpaper that gets too much sunlight and slowly loses its color. This ~ Joe Hill

I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words. ~ Joe Coomer

I smoke on the mic like Smokin' Joe Frazier,
The hell raiser, raisin' hell with the flavor. ~ Inspectah Deck

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly. ~ Louis Auchincloss

I don't have anybody available to send up there to help you out. We're kind of up to our elbows in enemy sympathizers right now in Los Angeles. ~ Louis L'Amour

And then came, perhaps, the biggest offseason move in franchise history … and no, we're not talking about inviting Carlos Peña to camp or hiring Joe Maddon or appointing Andrew Friedman as Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations - those moves had already transpired. No, we're talking about the really big move. After 2007 the Tampa Bay Devil Rays officially released the 'Devil' and emerged in 2008 as the Tampa Bay Rays. ~ Tucker Elliot

One tree isn't more important than the entire forest, Joe. You taught me that. Remember? Political pruning. (Syd)
Yeah, but every forest is always destroyed one tree at a time. You take care of those individual trees because each one that falls brings you closer to deforestation. You only prune what's rotten. You don't cut down a good tree for no reason. (Joe) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities. ~ Louis MacNeice

Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things. ~ Louis L'Amour

I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and beat these addictions but he didn't. He sort of designed his own, you know, sort of rehabilitation at home. And anybody could do what he did. When he felt like having a cigarette after he ate, he would get up and walk. At cocktail hour when he used to have a drink and watch the news, he stopped watching the news. He couldn't. He couldn't watch the news and not have a drink and a cigarette. He would walk. ~ Joe Eszterhas

O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes
pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death
there stood Henry Jekyll! ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good. ~ Joe Lauzon

Before the first workout, Joe Schultz, the manager (he's out of the old school, I think, because he looks like he's out of the old school - short, portly, bald, ruddy-faced, twinkly eyed), stopped by while I was having a catch. "How you feeling, Jim?" he asked. I wonder what he meant by that. ~ Jim Bouton

There was much talk of sermons, also, and I gathered from this, as well as what Yance had told me, that sermons had much to do with shaping of thinking. There were a stiff-necked, proud folk, not easily persuaded to any course not dictated by conscience, yet conscience could be a poor guide if accompanied by lack of knowledge. ~ Louis L'Amour

Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest. ~ Joe Sacco

My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets. ~ Kinky Friedman

I'm not an angry man. ~ Joe Cornish

The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like. ~ Joe Abercrombie

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley. ~ Leslie Fiedler

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man ~ Joe Calzaghe

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions. ~ Joe Paterno

When I learned the news about Harmon today, I felt like I lost a family member. He has treated me like one of his own. It's hard to put into words what Harmon has meant to me. He first welcomed me into the Twins family as an 18-year-old kid and has continued to influence my life in many ways. He is someone I will never forget and will always treasure the time we spent together. Harmon will be missed but never forgotten. ~ Joe Mauer

Strange, how quickly a king could become an animal. Or half a king half an animal. Perhaps even those we raise highest never get that far above the mud. ~ Joe Abercrombie

Partly from the damping influence of this alarm, partly to rest Silver and the sick folk, the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there. ~ Maurice Minnifield

We've reached the point where a Rhodes Scholar like Florida State's Joe O'Shea - a philosophy major, no less - is comfortable admitting not only that he doesn't read books but that he doesn't see any particular need to read them. ~ Nicholas Carr

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ~ Henry Louis Gates

I have been driven to search everywhere just to find myself mentioned. I am mentioned almost nowhere, but where I find myself, I find myself condemned. ~ Louis De Bernieres

There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear ... " he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge. ~ Ally Carter