"Boxing is strange to watch. It's impossible to take your eyes off of it. Part of our brains like to watch violence. At the same time, it's horrifying to watch two men try to knock each other out."

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Source : "Jonathan Eig’s Muhammad Ali biography comes as new generation of athletes kneels in protest". www.chicagotribune.com. September 27, 2017.

Jonathan Eig

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Boxing Quotes

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

Source : As quoted in "Perfecting Private Practice" by Joan Neehall-Davidson, (p. 95), 2004.
“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
“If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in comparison with the effort involved. But perhaps that was not important. The mysterious power that commanded men appeared to him to ask of them only obedience and the maximum of effort and to remain curiously indifferent as to the results.”
“To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.”
“You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.”
“Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.”
“Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.”
“The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.”

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