Jim Bailey famous quotes

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.
-- Jim Bailey

#Heavyweights #Eras #Modern

If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and the the Once Best Place.
-- Jim Bailey

#Montana #Bison #Lines

The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.
-- Jim Bailey

#Running #Determination #Kings

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.

Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

The Youngest World Heavyweight Champion in History!

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.