Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Parker - Page 2

It feels good that people believe in my ability, but you've just got to stay focused, keep your feet on the ground, and do the job and do the hard work in the gym.

My Pacific Island genes will never allow me to be the most ripped, but I think I can get pretty close to it.

Every man who gets in that ring has the ability to hurt you.

I know if I train hard, focus, I can beat anyone out there.

I can outbox Anthony Joshua.

My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.

I believe that every fight we've had is a big fight, and every fight we've had is a fight where I've learned a lot of things in the ring, I learn about myself, and it's sort of pushed me to know where I can go.

That takes it out of you, throwing too many punches.

It always excites me to meet new family members. I'd like to meet them all someday.

Know that the power comes from within: when you are tired, or you want to give up, dig deep. Dig deep for whatever reason - in boxing, in sport, in life.

What I need to do is relax, take my time, and make my shots count. That will give me more energy later in the fights but also allow me to throw the punches harder.

I didn't make the Olympics, but I beat a lot of the guys that went to the Olympics, so I felt I was at that level even though I didn't make it.

It would be an honour to knock out Botha.

Charles Martin, we watched him. He won the IBF championship of the world, but we don't think he is anything special.

I want to fight the best Anthony Joshua there is.

All it takes is one punch, one big punch, and that could wreck everything for me.

So I have, like, more than a 100 cousins all over the world now.

I know I'm always ready when I jump into the ring.

A lot of boxers get along well. But if you have to fight each other, then leave that relationship behind.

As an amateur, there are three rounds, and you have to give it all you have, throw as many punches as you can.

I love meeting people.

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.

I feel good about my first professional fight. I was ready for it, and it was a good win for me.

I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches - really helps to change up my jab.

If I train hard and have a great training camp, and I'm as prepared as I can be, I can take any heavyweight in the world.

You not only have to box smart, you have to be ruthless in the ring.

Having watched the Botha fight, I wanted to get him out of there, but I didn't really want to hurt him as bad.

I was upset about not going to the Olympics. It was a dream of mine, and I'd been working at it for a long time. But I've turned pro now; it's in the past, and there's nothing I can do about it.

It's business inside the ring, but outside it, it's friendship and brotherhood. I try to do that with all my opponents.

There are good life skills to be had in the sport. It is a big positive to see young kids coming to the gym, training hard, looking up to the likes of David Tua, Shane Cameron, and possibly myself.

I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match.

I remember famous people coming in to speak to me when I was in school and being inspired by them.

I can get to a point where I get pretty chiselled.

My motivation is being unified heavyweight champion of the world, making New Zealand and my family proud.

Some people say the people I'm fighting are bums, but I don't see it like that.

I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

I have to take my time, use my punches, and use the ring.

The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and they know it. Talking about right and wrong aren't compelling arguments for them. They are criminals who have chosen to break the law and hurt people, many of them young people.

The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—‘off with his head!’ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven

The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

Have no fear for the unsettlement or the disturbance of the Kingdom of heaven. It began in eternity, it will go on through everlasting; there is no panic in the divine personality. God is peace, God gives peace, God gives rest.

Only Christ could have conceived Christ.

When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.

Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop as surely as in the sun. No man can any more create the smallest flower than he could create the greatest world.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. . . . Jesus is not a phenomenon, He is bread: Christ is not a curiosity, He is water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live truly without Christ: If we know not Christ we are not living, our movement is a mechanical flutter, our pulse is but the stirring of an animal life.

Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

True preaching is the sweating of blood.