Pugilism Quotes & Sayings

Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you've given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it's the first time they've internalized it. — David M. Cote

Knowledge is like the great army that will help us crush the forces of our own faults. — Dalai Lama XIV

It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now. — Randal Cremer

The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Respect is a sign of strength, not of weakness. — Claudia Diaz

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers. — Ronee Blakley

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Fists and rocks and clubs can do a limited amount of harm, but a gun is entirely different. It makes a weak man feel like a hero and a strong man feel as if he is immortal, and it removes the last inhibition a killer might feel. You don't have to be close to a man to put a bullet in him. You don't have to have to see his face. — Elizabeth Peters

The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it. — Davis Miller

Under each station of the real, another glimmers. — Marcel Proust