Lennox Lewis Quotes About Boxing

Quotes about: Boxing

• In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Creating, Boxing

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

  Lennox Lewis

  Skills, Boxing, Opponents

• How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

  Lennox Lewis

  Men, Boxing, Minutes

• It's not rage that drives me, it's competition.

  Lennox Lewis

  Boxing, Competition, Rage

• Boxing and chess are similar. It’s about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to defeat my opponent. It’s about finding the best way. A good boxer has to be variable. He doesn’t just need to know how to punch. He must also know how to protect himself, how to defend, how to avoid the opponent’s punches. Only a complete fighter can become champion.

  Lennox Lewis

  Mean, Boxing, Choices

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

  Lennox Lewis

  Character, Boxing, Cartoon

• A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I’'m convinced of that. There you learn everything that you’ll need later as a pro. Someone who’s got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesn’t lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, you’re prepared for anything, you’ve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Successful, Boxing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. That’s what he’'ll be remembered for. But good boxing doesn’t work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he’'d come a cropper some day.

  Lennox Lewis

  Boxing, Fighter, Fit

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.

  Lennox Lewis

  Kids, East London, Boxing

  "Lennox Lewis Answers Your Questions". "Talking Point: Forum", news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 1999.

• Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in ‘88. Only then was I ready to turn professional.

  Lennox Lewis

  People, Boxing, Gold

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• In boxing, if you think you will lose... you're already halfway there.

  Lennox Lewis

  Thinking, Halfway There, Boxing

  Lennox Lewis @LennoxLewis, twitter.com. January 07, 2012.

• Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback. He smoothed the way for us. He wasn’t just a great person who had conviction, but made the sport of boxing great. He was the first superstar, he made our stock rise. Without him we wouldn’t have earned so much. Americans from every walk of life have contributed to the foundation: Bill Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt. Unfortunately I was the only American athlete to make a donation. There’s not enough respect in our business.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Athlete, Boxing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.

  Lennox Lewis

  Writing, Reality, Boxing

• A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better.

  Lennox Lewis

  People, Boxing, Get Better

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

  Lennox Lewis

  White, Boxing, Guy

• Boxing involves the possibility of defeat, I accepted that very early on. After all, there are only two men and one of them wins.

  Lennox Lewis

  Winning, Men, Boxing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.

  Lennox Lewis

  New York, Vegas, Boxing

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

• Boxing always was corrupt and always will be corrupt. The three world champion's belts really are absurd. One single association would make this business more reputable. Just as powerful as the promoters, is the media. The cable networks control the cash flow. You can’t ignore the influence the media and the promoters have on the sport. They have a financial objective - high ratings, selling pay-per-views and selling out arenas. Because of the system, the public may not be seeing the best the sport has to offer, but what sells.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Powerful, Boxing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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