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In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.


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PETE HEGSETH Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both...
PETE HEGSETH At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted...
PETE HEGSETH Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it's funny, it doesn't hurt ...
PETE DAVIDSON Whether we like it or not, gender differences matter in a combat situation.
PETE HEGSETH Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that m...
PETE HEGSETH When Mr. Obama entered office, he said all the right things about getting Washington spending under ...
PETE HEGSETH Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
PETE HEGSETH In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valia...
PETE HEGSETH It's a sense in Minnesota that we need to get back to common sense. We need to get back to takin...
PETE HEGSETH President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be ...
PETE HEGSETH I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Inva...
PETE HEGSETH I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand ...
PETE HEGSETH The choices Israelis face and the decisions they make, day in and day out, are literally the differe...
PETE HEGSETH With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught...
PETE WENTZ People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care...
PETE CARROLL Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need...
PETE CARROLL There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade ...
PETE MARAVICH Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I...
PETE SAMPRAS If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.
PETE ROSE Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Vetera...
PETE HEGSETH I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ea...
PETE FOUNTAIN I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.
PETE ROSE When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it ...
PETE BEST I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those l...
PETE WENTZ The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to informa...
PETE WILSON I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
PETE TOWNSHEND You'd never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for ...
PETE BURNS Of course, I believe that Mike Piazza is probably the greatest offensive catcher in the history of b...
PETE ROSE In some ways, I feel like the strength of animation is in its simplicity and caricature, and in redu...
PETE DOCTER I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. S...
PETE WENTZ Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you...
PETE ROZELLE I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats.
PETE WATERMAN My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visu...
PETE BURNS I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' ...
PETE WENTZ Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally hav...
PETE HEGSETH