Joe Louis famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#Practice #Dancer #Fool
Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
-- Joe Louis

#Sports #Guy #Bells
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

#Giving #Technique #Fighter
I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.
-- Joe Louis

#Boxing #Titles #Made
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

#Pride #Names #Boxing
You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.
-- Joe Louis

#Wind #Sticks #Tough
A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His â€œbecomingâ€ happens during his daily routine.
-- Joe Louis

#Champion #Routine #Becoming
I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.
-- Joe Louis

#Money #Nerves
The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.
-- Joe Louis

#Champion #Heavyweights #Progress
Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.
-- Joe Louis

#Mistake #Men #Made
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
-- Joe Louis

#Government #Boxing #Owing
You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.
-- Joe Louis

#People #Different #Needs
Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.
-- Joe Louis

#America
The whole damned country was depending on me.
-- Joe Louis

#Country
Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.
-- Joe Louis

#Funny #Boxing #Might
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love
-- Joe Louis

#Might #Way #Funny Money
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
-- Joe Louis

#Heaven #Religion #Want
We're going to do our part and we'll win because we're on God's side.
-- Joe Louis

#Winning #Boxing #Sides
Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.
-- Joe Louis

#Boxing #Thrill #Let Me
Every man's got to figure out how to get beat sometime.
-- Joe Louis

#Men #Boxing #Beats
Every fighter have a plan until he's been beaten
-- Joe Louis

#Boxing #Fighter #Plans
It hurt to even bump into him.
-- Joe Louis

#Hurt #Boxing #Bumps
Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?
-- Joe Louis

#Boxing #Should #Aria
He can run, but he can't hide.
-- Joe Louis

#Sports #Running

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