Yeah, the highest profile have to be Dundee and D,Amato.
Cus D'Amato was like a philosopher, he understood that getting a fighter to control and channel his nervous energy was key to the fighters success. There are loads of D'aAmato quotes out there.
"When two men step into the ring, one and only one deserves to win. When you step into the ring, you gotta know you deserve to win. You gotta know destiny owes you victory cos you trained harder than your opponent. You sparred harder. You ran farther"
"Dont worry about being scared going into a fight. Its when you aint scared that?s the time to worry. Fear is the friend of every good and reasonable athlete"
"Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently"
"The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters"
"To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy"
"People who are born round don't die square"
"Dont watch the glove, watch the chest. Wait for the glove to move, youre dead. When the chest flexes, you bob"
"One word describes Rocky Marciano. Tenacity. Only one hundred eighty seven pounds but to this day he remains the only undefeated heavyweight champion. How? Because he would not imagine he could lose. He would not even allow the concept of defeat to enter his mind"
"Joe Louis may have been quiet on the outside, but on the inside ? pure rage. He was a Negro in a white mans world and he hates it. Up and down the street, twenty four hours a day"
Heres a video of DAmato chatting with Ali and Dundee.
In recent years youd have to say Calzaghes old man, for a few years he had a successfull stable of fighters, all limited but he managed to get them to work.
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