"There are negatives in fighting away from home: you're not in front of your home fans, you don't have your home comforts, but I have travelled the world as an amateur and I have always managed to bring back medals. I enjoy it a little bit more when you're the underdog."

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Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

James DeGale

#Home Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Underdog Quotes

“It's an illusion I've noticed before-- words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.51, Egmont UK
“It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.”
“If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low!”
“Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.”
“I won't be labeled as average.”
“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.”
“I've been a writer since I was 16. I didn't get published until I was 24. I know that sounds crazy.”
“The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.121, I.B.Tauris

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