Max Schmeling famous quotes

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.
-- Max Schmeling

#Humble #School #Men

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

#Men #Good Man #Plans

I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.
-- Max Schmeling

#Sports #America #Ministry

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.
-- Max Schmeling

#Careers #Discipline #Achievement

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
-- Max Schmeling

#Marriage #Nice #Wife

Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
-- Max Schmeling

#War #Victory #Might

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
-- Max Schmeling

#Sports #Winning #Want

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.