"The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots."

-- Jim Lampley

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“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn These bringing with them unknown gods and rites Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws In street and alley what strange tongues are loud Accents of menace alien to our air Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! Is it well To leave the gates unguarded?”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”
“I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.”
“I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?”
“Then i starter krompy kromp with Kroomp Krompp and the i kromped all over the Krommmmp!”
“Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.”
“I use visual perception as a way of bringing people into my space.”
“Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.”

Source : Johnny Ramone (2012). “Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone”, p.12, Abrams

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