Boxing Quotes - Page 15

• I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

  Mark McGrath

  Fans, Strategy, Combat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

  Dean Norris

  School, College, Black

  "Q&A – Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. May 2010.

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• Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?

  Henry Cooper

  Silly, Golf, Balls

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• People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Spiritual, Fighting

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• Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Emotional, Ideas

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• If people recognize me from The Vampire Diaries, they just give me that look that's like, "I think I know you. I think I saw you boxing in 1912, but I'm not sure," because it was such a short-lived run.

  Cassidy Freeman

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Cassidy Freeman Talks LONGMIRE, SMALLVILLE, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and Her Band, THE REAL D’COY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2012.

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• The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

  Hilary Swank

  Past, Everyday, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Fighting, Giving, Give Me Strength

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

  Barbara Johnson

  Heaven, Want, Criminal Mind

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.58, Zondervan

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• Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Loyalty, Sports, Violence

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.

  T. J. Thyne

  Running, Track, Work Out

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• One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.

  Cassie Scerbo

  Workout, All Time, All Time Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

  Adam Carolla

  Taught

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• My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

  Lennie James

  Football, Thinking, Television

  "Lennie James on Acting in England and the U.S". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Boxing is your father's sport.

  Dana White

  Sports, Father

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• A champion shows who he is by what he does.

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Champion, Doe

  Twitter post from Jan 2, 2017

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• I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

  George Foreman

  Thinking, Blood, Guy

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• In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

  George Foreman

  Waiting, Firsts, No Fear

  "Talk Asia" with Monita Rajpal, edition.cnn.com. April 26, 2013.

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• In boxing, you never know who you're going to face in the ring.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Faces, Rings, Knows

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• I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.

  Jason Statham

  Dream, Fighting, Years

  Source: movieweb.com

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• My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

  Diego Corrales

  Dad, Trouble, Wanted

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• I read the Romans had bread and circuses. We had home relief and boxing.

  Jake LaMotta

  Home, Relief, Circus

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• I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

  Juan Manuel Marquez

  Brother, Father, Eight

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• At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

  Juan Manuel Marquez

  Workout, Three, Needs

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