Quotes by Jack Dempsey

• A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
• Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
• Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
• By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
• I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
• Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
• You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
• All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
• A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
• A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
• A champion is someone who gets up when they can't
• A champion is someone who gets up, even when they can't.