I held on to the floor with both hands
“There are people who would perhaps call me a dilettante,” Plimpton said in an interview several years ago, “because it looks like I’m having too much fun. I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.”
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Skinny guys with noses that bleed and eyes that tear are a dime a dozen in the fight game. The late great boxing trainer Charlie Goldman once said, almost as if alluding to Plimpton, “You know them fighters with long necks and them long, pointy chins. They cost you more for smellin’ salts than they do for food.”
George Plimpton vs. Archie Moore
SEE ALSO:
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Plimpton
http://www.notmilk.com/plimpton.html
16 February 2006, 03:02 ::
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You and me. lets hit the circuit, get in the ring, and…. oh never mind who am I kidding, I can’t fight.
— J Smiley 2006-02-22 17:25 #