"Irish" Wayne Kelly

“Compassion and toughness can go together.”

“It doesn't matter how far you go as a boxer..It matters how far you go as a man!”

“Boxing is the image of the Vietnam war with none of its guilt and only 25 percent of its dangers. It is like a sin. Too popular to be abolished.”

“The moment we stop fighting for the underdog is the moment we lose humanity.”

“There are more pleasent things to do than beat up people. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”

“I write poetry not for publication but merely to kill time. Airplanes are a good place to write poetry and then throw it away. My collected works are mostly on the vomit bags of Lufthansa.”

“It's time to reconnect to people you like and get rid of people you don't like....We need to live.”

“The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.”

“Never Fight ugly people—they have nothing to Lose.”

“When you're looking for fault, you'll find it.”

“Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”