"My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think."

-- Warren Zevon

#Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Boxers Quotes

“Never give up, trust your instincts!”
“Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.”
“. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.”
“Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?”
“I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.”
“Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt
“Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.”
“Take new valuesÂ : Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.”

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