"That was a f****g dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?!"

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Source : "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.

Rocky Marciano

#Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.”
“Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.”
“Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.”
“Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're watching American news and we're constantly saying, wow, it's not as bad as it is in the United States.”
“I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.”
“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”
“Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters ...”

Source : "Ziggy Marley Explains His Identity". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.
“It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.”

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