Max Schmeling famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.
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I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
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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.
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Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
-- Max Schmeling
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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.
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Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
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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.
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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.
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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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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.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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