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Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) - The national body for this Olympic sport offers history, news, results, notes on Olympic participation and on its home, the National Stadium, as well as links and contact details.
The Pocket Rocket - Wayne McCullough - Official presentation for McCullough, former Olympic boxer for Ireland now turned pro, offers news, biography and fight record, fan club, merchandise, discussion forum, photos, links and contact facilities.
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Boxing It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Boxing If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Boxing I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Boxing Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Boxing Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Boxing Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Boxing "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Boxing It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Boxing Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Boxing Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. -- Anonymous "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung Boxing The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Boxing The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Boxing Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Boxing "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Boxing "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Boxing "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Boxing Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Boxing "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976. -- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Boxing The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson Boxing "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Boxing If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Boxing
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