"Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed."

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Source : Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

Roger Kahn

#Boxing Quotes #Kidneys Quotes #Halls Quotes

“The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.”
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

Source : Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc
“I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.”
“Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.”
“Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
“I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.”
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.”

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