"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it."

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"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

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"They'll take everything, even your tears."

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"Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream."

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"The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion."

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"That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy."

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"When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'."

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"I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet."

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"I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"They'll take everything, even your tears."

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"That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy."

"When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'."

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