Jack Dempsey

“All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.”

“I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.”

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”

“Honey, I forgot to duck.”

“The best defense is a good offense.”

“You can't tell a champion by his size. You can tell a champion by his heart.”

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

“When I was a young fellow I was a tramp. I was a hobo. A bum. I slipped in and out of towns like a shadow.”

“A guy has to be born a fighter. You can't make a fighter.”

“I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters... I've seen better fights in saloons.”

“Tall men are shooters, you have to get in close to them.”

“By God, I'm the man who licked the man who licked Jack Johnson.”