Famous quotes containing the words world, champion and/or boxer:
“For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“Lets not quibble! Im the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, Id rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”
—Tallulah Bankhead (19031968)
“Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)