Boxing Quotes - Page 8

• Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Winning, Feelings

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

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• Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Oct 23, 2013

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• Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivational, Home, Receiving

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• If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

  Emanuel Steward

  Strength, Sports, Fitness

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• I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

  George Foreman

  Funny, Shadow, Funniest Sports

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• Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, Winning, Pay

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• I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Truth, Fighting

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2011

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• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  Vijender Singh

  Winning, Juniors, Firsts

  "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. June 1, 2012.

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• As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Kids, Blow

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  Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

  Muhammad Ali

  Positive, Motivational Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2010

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• Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.

  Joe Louis

  Funny, Might, Scared

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• Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

  Randall Cobb

  Ankles, Necks, Break

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• In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Connections, Painful

  Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

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• Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Leaving, Stories, Alive

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, People, President

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 29, 2012

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• This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.

  Harry Carpenter

  Noses, Boxers, Bleeding

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• He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life

  George Chuvalo

  Dancing, Bleeding, Kidneys

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• If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Thinking, Fans

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• The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

  Joe Frazier

  Men, Games, Giving

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• A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion. If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

  Marvin Hagler

  Cutting, Champion, Doe

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• Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

  George Foreman

  Music, Sports, People

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• You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

  Serena Williams

  Positive, Sports, Believe

  "Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap". fortune.com. July 31, 2017.

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• If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Sports, Tennis, Screw Ups

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