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Jack Dempsey Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“You're in there for three-minute rounds with gloves on and a referee. That's not real fighting.”
— Jack Dempsey, Princeton Alumni Weekly
Tagged: Boxing, Fighting
“The best defense is a good offense.”
— Jack Dempsey, The Best Defense
Tagged: Boxing, strategy
“Honey, I forgot to duck.”
— Jack Dempsey, What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations
“I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any SOB in the house.”
— Jack Dempsey, Herndon Davis
Tagged: Boxing, Fighting, Dancing, Singing
“Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.”
— Jack Dempsey, The Boxing Scene
Tagged: Boxing
“Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.”
— Jack Dempsey, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
Tagged: Boxing, Height
“Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.”
— Jack Dempsey, The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
Tagged: Boxing
“Nobody has to go hungry today. There is plenty of work for a man who wants to work. A kid can make plenty of dough for himself doing almost anything. I was hungry. I had to fight my way along. Freights and the like, fight, fight all the time. The life was tough, but it hardened you.”
— Jack Dempsey
Tagged: Boxing, Hunger, Determination
“When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn’t. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven’t eaten for two days you’ll understand.”
— Jack Dempsey, The Black Lights
Tagged: Boxing, Hunger, Poverty
“For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was fighting. I got a pretty good blast when introduced. The crowd was hollering and raising hell. I looked around for my bodyguard, a colorful New York character named Wild Bill Lyons, who packed two pearl-handled pistols and used to talk a lot about his days in the West. Wild Bill was under the ring, hiding.”
— Jack Dempsey, Tommy Gibbons- Wikipedia
Tagged: Boxing, Fear, Bodyguards, Wild West
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