Quotes & Sayings About Dundee

Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him. — Angelo Dundee

I loved the movie for the simple reason that I saw the scenes and I saw Muhammad working with these guys. — Angelo Dundee

My kid could move like a lightweight — Angelo Dundee

At Tulliallan Police College DI John Rebus based at St. Leonard's police station in Edinburgh DI James "Jazz" McCullough based in Dundee DI Francis Gray based in Glasgow DS Stu Sutherland based in Livingston DI Thomas "Tam" Barclay based in Falkirk DC Allan Ward based in Dumfries DCI Archibald Tennant the Resurrection Men's boss Andrea Thomson career analyst The Rico Lomax Murder Case Eric "Rico" Lomax murder victim Fenella Rico's widow "Chib" Kelly Fenella's current lover, Glasgow bar owner and criminal Richard "Dickie" Diamond Rico's friend Malky Dickie's nephew, barman in Edinburgh Jenny Bell Dickie's onetime girlfriend Bernie Johns deceased Glasgow drug baron — Ian Rankin

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way. — Angelo Dundee

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally. — Brian Cox

George Foreman can knock down
an oak tree
... but oak trees don't move. — Angelo Dundee

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I'm loving it. — Charlie Cox

The only award I've been nominated for is a Scottish BAFTA. A Scottish BAFTA, it's like hearing that the animals have their own Olympics. You hear all this stuff about TV being faked. Of course it's faked. It's all faked. That documentary a couple of weeks ago about tribal warfare among monkeys, that was all filmed in a Yates wine lodge in Dundee. Comic Relief is faked. Everybody in Africa is fine. — Frankie Boyle

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee! — Walter Scott

Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter. — Angelo Dundee

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it! — Angelo Dundee

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win. — Angelo Dundee

Whenever Elliot Norther's wife was nervous she baked. With the murder of Harriet Mason, her husband's close colleague at the Faculty, she had been unable to resist a couple of Victoria sponges. During the frenzied press speculation about the identity of the murderer, a Dundee cake had appeared, followed swiftly by a Battenberg and a Lemon Drizzle. Since news of the Wildencrust murder broke, the kitchen, dining room and study had come to resemble the storerooms of an industrial bakery, every surface heaving with the weight of sponge and cream. Yesterday, having at last been overwhelmed by the fear and rumour that swept the town, she had taken herself off to her mother's house in Hampstead, leaving her husband to soldier on alone. When he had last seen his wife, Elliot Norther noticed that she had been putting the finishing touches to an impressive, triple-tiered wedding cake, beating a batch of royal icing into a sickly paste. — Robert Clear

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better! — Angelo Dundee

You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem. — Angelo Dundee

It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it. — Angelo Dundee

In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat — Angelo Dundee

What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out. — Angelo Dundee

As a result, he was actually looking directly at it when the back side suddenly erupted outward in a thundering, ear-pounding explosion! The — Wayne D. Dundee

My grandest boyhood ambition was to be a professor of history at Notre Dame. Although what I do now is just a different way of working with history, I suppose.") He told me about his blind-in-one-eye canary rescued from a Woolworth's who woke him singing every morning of his boyhood; the bout of rheumatic fever that kept him in bed for six months; and the queer little antique neighborhood library with frescoed ceilings ("torn down now, alas") where he'd gone to get away from his house. About Mrs. De Peyster, the lonely old heiress he'd visited after school, a former Belle of Albany and local historian who clucked over Hobie and fed him Dundee cake ordered from England in tins, who was happy to stand for hours explaining to Hobie every single item in her china cabinet and who had owned, among other things, the mahogany sofa - rumored to have belonged to General Herkimer - that got him interested in furniture in the first place. — Donna Tartt

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. — Sam Peckinpah

I never knew about a lot of the outside things — Angelo Dundee

Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank. — Angelo Dundee

The punches you miss are the ones that wear you out. - Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee — Benjamin Graham

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married. — Angelo Dundee

This kid deserves anything good that happens to him. He's such a good guy. He's just the nicest human being you want to meet. — Angelo Dundee

Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength. — Angelo Dundee

The match would have to be made at 165 pounds. Sean can't make 160 any more, even though he's drinking lite beer these days — Angelo Dundee

Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined. — Angelo Dundee

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules. — Calvin Harris

On the other side of St John's house is a fake egg timer who can't maintain an erection. He shares the property with a glossy beef burger called Tom, who has been painted by a seven year old magistrate in order to be entered for this year's Miss East Lancashire competition. Next door to them is a Dundee cake with a lisp. — St John Morris

He would have beat everybody because we'd have found a way to beat him. — Angelo Dundee

Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave! — William Wordsworth

It doesn't cost anything more to be nice. — Angelo Dundee

You're talkin' legit here. — Angelo Dundee

I just put the reflexes in the proper direction. — Angelo Dundee

After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man. — Linda Kozlowski

I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This is going to be a novelty for them.' Then I realised that there are a million other Australians here, and I should just shut up. — Chris Hemsworth

I made the decision to turn pro, and I remember what Ali said to me: 'Get Angelo Dundee. He's the right complexion with the right connection.' He knew boxing. Our relationship was so genuine, so sincere. — Sugar Ray Leonard

There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively . — Angelo Dundee

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep — Angelo Dundee