#heavyweight

I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

#enough #fortunate #guys #heavyweights #i

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#ask #back #come #heavyweights #i

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' ↗

— James Wolcott

#author #autumn #brought #contender #dan

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#hard #heavyweight #i #scene #worked

A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#champion #does #fight #greatest #hear

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#could #don king #end #fighting #fights

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion. ↗

— George Foreman

#heavyweight #heavyweight champion #internal #real #revenue

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#alaska #ballot #cast #conceivably #could

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#beginning #champion #complete #could #heavyweight