Thomas Hearns famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.
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I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.
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I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
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Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren't. But I must live my life.
-- Thomas Hearns
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.
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Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.
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A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.
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Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.
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