"Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him."

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Source : "Rocky Marciano's Toughest Opponent" by Greg Smith, Hardcore Boxing.com, June 15, 2006.

Rocky Marciano

#Pain Quotes #Men Quotes #Tough Quotes

“The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.”
“I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.”
“No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.”
“By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.180
“Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.”
“I think the problem is, if we foreclose any public justice, then we cut off the virtuous cycle that's represented by law, where there are public decisions which then deter misconduct in the future. We need to have both. We need to have private dispute sy-, systems, and we need to have public dispute systems.”
“I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.”
“The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.”

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