Spinks Quotes & Sayings

To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion. — Leon Spinks

It's still in my heart. I can do it. — Leon Spinks

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk. — Leon Spinks

I had the greatest sparring partners, I had the greatest sparring team. And these guys they wrapped me up a lot. I never got the chance to get off on them. — Michael Spinks

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me. — Leon Spinks

I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92. — Zach Galifianakis

I am Calumny Spinks.
Between me and the satin blue sky hangs the hempen noose.
It has swung there in the faintest of breezes, waiting for me, all my life. — Piers Alexander

Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam — Michael Spinks

If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life. — Michael Spinks

You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart. — Leon Spinks

I don't want the kids to go through want I went through. — Leon Spinks

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity. — Leon Spinks

In the two weeks following the All-Star Game, baseball was largely upstaged by the events of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal, including Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci's seven perfect 10.0 scores, Bruce Jenner's record-setting decathlon triumph, and the five gold medals won by U.S. boxers Howard Davis Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, Leo Randolph, and brothers Leon and Michael Spinks - the mightiest performance of any American boxing team in Olympic history. — Dan Epstein

You do the best you can. — Leon Spinks

You always be like, I hope I'm ready. — Michael Spinks

It ain't what you do it's how you do it. — Leon Spinks

Well, I'm still breathing. — Leon Spinks

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool. — Leon Spinks

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to. — Leon Spinks

I never did think I had brain damage. — Leon Spinks

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it. — Leon Spinks

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life. — Leon Spinks

I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career. — Mike Tyson

I love helping the kids. — Leon Spinks

King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody. — Michael Spinks

I'm gonna keep going. — Leon Spinks

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen. — Leon Spinks

rare and costly books for a twelve-month together; in certain cases, advice and counsel; in other cases, the revising of proof sheets, the translation from foreign tongues, and the transcription of Elizabethan and Jacobean documents: - To the Rev. F. A. Russell, York, formerly of India; the Rev. Edmond Nolan, B.A., St. Edmund's House, Cambridge; the Rev. Richard Sharp, S.J., Skipton-in-Craven, Yorks.; the — Henry Hawkes Spinks Jr.

The American id could not be educated, Spinks thought. It needed horror in order to stay awake and to justify its most pleasureful pursuit, the destruction of helpless people who had never done anything wrong. — Paul La Farge

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight. — Michael Spinks

I had did so much to Larry [Holmes] in the ring that I made him respect me in the fight. — Michael Spinks

I had heard everything, Larry gonna knock me out, he gonna beat me, this and that. I got so sick of that. I had a little talk with myself in my bedroom and I said, Don't think about getting in the ring with Larry Holmes, I mean, Don't forget Larry Holmes is getting in the ring with you. You're champ for so many years. And just do what you're best at. What I am best at was not letting anybody have their way with me in the ring. — Michael Spinks

I still am champion in my own right. — Leon Spinks