Larry Holmes Quotes

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

I know more about sports than I know about any other subject, unfortunately. I'm embarrassed to admit that.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

If you think you know it all, you are missing something.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football

It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

I don't want to tell people what to think. I'm the least qualified person in the world for that. If I'd go around pretending to be the expert on everything, I'd become Dan Brown, and I don't understand that. We all do our research if we're good writers, and we all work hard to get it right, but that doesn't mean we're experts in the field. The best we can do is challenge people to learn the facts themselves.

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know.

Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

Don't write about that which you don't know.