Ferdie Pacheco famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.
-- Ferdie Pacheco

#Mistake #Fighting #Boxing
In essence the whole thing of life is to just keep trying to do good things. Just do good things for people.
-- Ferdie Pacheco

#Essence #People #Trying
You rarely see one punch kill anybody. I mean, Davey Moore died, the first fight I ever worked for the title, my guy fought and was getting killed, and he hit Davey Moore. Davey Moore went down. There was no bottom rope to it. I then put bottom rope to it, when I got in power. Hit his head. One blow, hit his head and died.
-- Ferdie Pacheco

#Mean #Fighting #Blow
I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.
-- Ferdie Pacheco

#Writing #Boxing #Looks
Aggression, it's the next thing to war, except you don't get killed. Aggression is what you have every day with your wife. Aggression is what you have every day at the office. Box is a legalized form of aggression, where the ending is well-defined, the combat is well-delivered, and you got 10 rounds of two equally-sized fighters fighting aggressively to hurt each other.
-- Ferdie Pacheco

#Hurt #War #Fighting
At the end of 10 rounds, what you got, unless you have a knockout, of course, and so what you are doing is you are really packaging aggression in its most palatable form.
-- Ferdie Pacheco

#Packaging #Ends #Form
Some people that don't see it as palatable, they shouldn't watch boxing.
-- Ferdie Pacheco

#People #Boxing #Watches
There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in the ring occur because they don't keep up with the records well enough. They are putting mismatches together. The people who are licensed to stop a fight, the referee and the corner, don't do it for fear that the audience is going to object to them stopping a fight.
-- Ferdie Pacheco

#Fighting #People #Together
I have six different careers, each one of which I was successful in. I was a successful person in life because I helped everybody, because I did not do anything wrong.
-- Ferdie Pacheco

#Successful #Careers #Different

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
I worry because there is a basic asymmetry, an imbalance, between the two parties. For the Palestinians, it is about status and sovereignty, which could always be adjusted, while for Israel it is about security and trust. And security is something you can't adjust. If you make a mistake on the scrutiny issue, there is no going back.
Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.
Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.
I just put the reflexes in the proper direction.

Ferdie Pacheco famous quotes

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