"An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself."

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Source : "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. June 1, 2012.

Vijender Singh

#Winning Quotes #Boxing Quotes #Juniors Quotes

“Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.”
“I think I can play in the big leagues 10 or 15 years. But more important to me is winning-win, make the playoffs.”
“The fight against evil is long and difficult. It is essential to pray constantly and to be patient.”
“The only true immortality lies in one's children.”
“If you are an [American] politician it's very hard to imagine. "Now we are going to treat these guys as our equals? That's ridiculous. What have they ever done to deserve that?"”

Source : "US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.
“The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.”

Source : Bede Griffiths (1990). “A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and Christian Faith”, Templegate Pub
“Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.”
“I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I donâ€™t worry about the likeness of the result to some notion - some paradigm - of what music composition is supposed to be.”

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