"The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away."

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Source : "MISSION TO BE BEST / Andre Ward, 8-0, gets ready for his first 8-round fight" by John Crumpacker, www.sfgate.com. April 25, 2006.

Andre Ward

#Fighting Quotes #Walking Away Quotes #Games Quotes

“The goal isnâ€™t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasnâ€™t before.”
“I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.”
“There are a lot of things that are done in the federal government that are done because Washington did them.”
“I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place”
“What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.”
“Youth deals only in extremes ...”
“I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.”

Source : "Q&A with Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. October 18, 2011.

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