Jack Dempsey Quotes


Jack Dempsey

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can`t.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who`s ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit `em in the body.

All the time he`s boxing, he`s thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

Kill the other guy, before he kills you.






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