"My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape."

-- Diego Corrales

#Dad Quotes #Boxing Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.”
“Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.”
“It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.”
“Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first â€¦ in the long run, thatâ€™s exactly what makes them successful.”
“If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.”
“I am not accustomed to protocol.”
“Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.”

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