Slugging Quotes

Bond is part of the system. He`s an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It`ll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they`re just very different things.

I marvel at him. I wasn`t any good anymore at 39 and had to get out. (As a shortstop) he had great range and was a great hitter. Now he`s a slugging first baseman ... it`s just amazing.

If you`re going to succeed, you`ve got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet. --Premiere, October 1994

I don`t think we realized how far gone we were in people`s eyes. We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It`s been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record. It`s been us just slugging it out in the trenches and playing shows and proving to people every day that this band is legit and we`re not going away.

The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.