“Touch not the fighting-dog without a glove.Give me a fighting-dog and I come alive.Fighting-dogs always meant more to Tom Mitchell than people.”

“Every dog deserves a place to live. Every dog deserves a place in your heart.Every dog deserves a place to walk.Every dog deserves a place to run.John Duncan.”

“. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.”

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”

“its not about the dog in the fight, its about the fight in the dog!”

“Being a person, I had come torealize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But peopledo not know how to be people unless and until they learn from otherpeople.”

“There is a hope that a dog injects into everywalk, more than a hope- an expectation, really- that this si going to be something wonderful. You'll see, says the dog, something great is going to happen- just you wait.”