Boxing Quotes - Page 3

• All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

  Jack Dempsey

  Funny, Thinking, Hitting

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• Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Dues

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

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• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care and understanding.

  Don King

  Understanding, Care, Lost

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• Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.

  F.X. Toole

  Pain, Men, Skills

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• Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Killers, Fighter

  Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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• Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

  Alexis Arguello

  Kids, Fighting, July

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• It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

  Jimmy Smits

  Motivational Sports, Games, Chess Game

  "Interview with a dedicated Chess Parent in South Africa, Pearl Kander-Moodley". "Africa Chess Net" Interview, africachess.net. April 12, 2015.

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• I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sorry, Fighting, Names

  "Muhammad Ali on Joe Frazier: that's one helluva man and God bless him" by Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

  Muhammad Ali

  Talking, Knows

  Twitter post from Oct 10, 2010

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• I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

  Joe Louis

  Titles, Fighter, Made

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• Let me tell you, that was a thrill. Now, even more, I knew I had to get Schmeling good.

  Joe Louis

  Thrill, Let Me

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

  Joe Louis

  Pride, Names, Said

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.

  George Foreman

  Fighting, Men, Eight

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• I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Giving, Lips, Lip Service

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• Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

  Angelo Dundee

  Earth, Way, Finest

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• Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Race, Credit, Humans

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• Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

  Brian London

  Ties, Long, Weight

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• Honey, I just forgot to duck.

  Jack Dempsey

  Ducks, Honey, Classic

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 Feb. 1927. Said to his wife after losing the world heavyweight boxing championship to Gene Tunney, 23 Sept. 1926. President Ronald W. Reagan joked to his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck!" after John Hinckley tried to assassinate him 30 Mar. 1981.

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• Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

  Cus D'Amato

  Determination, Character, Desire

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• On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

  Vinny Paz

  Funny, Legs, Hitting

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• They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.

  Willie Pep

  Funny, Sports, Rays

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• The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

  Frank Crawford

  Funny, White, Gloves

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• Even though I heard him say he doesn't believe, cuz' that's why from watching Ali gave me the great deal of confidence and deep-down inner belief to believe there's no man fighting that could beat me.

  Mike Tyson

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

  George Foreman

  Age, Death Sentence, Sentences

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