Boxers Quotes

• We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has

  Clint Eastwood

  Know How, Knows

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• A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Philosopher, Debate

  "Personal Recollections" by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6, (Conversation of 1930), 1981.

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• Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

  Jack Lynch

  Communication, Style, Pepsi

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• How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Skills, Boxing

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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• A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

  Gene Tunney

  Exercise, Body

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• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Sports, Determination

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 10, 2014

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• Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hate, Inspiration, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 02, 2013

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• I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Strong, Fighter, Tall

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Apr 20, 2015

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• The man who has no imagination has no wings.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2010

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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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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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• There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

  Jimmy Smits

  Intimate, Trainers

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

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• My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

  Warren Zevon

  Father, Thinking, Rays

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• Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.

  Jessica Alba

  Night, Wife, Sunglasses

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• By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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• To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mean, Doe, Get Up

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.150, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

  Orlando Bloom

  Cowboy, Knights, Pirate

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• Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.

  Sophocles

  Love, Fool, Get Up

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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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• I think boxers are the greatest athletes in all sports for the simple fact that they don't cry. That is mind-blowing. Have you ever been punched in the nose? Oh my gosh, it hurts so bad. They have to go back to corner, where some little man yells at them. 'Shut up, I just got punched in the face!'... If I was a boxer, do you know who I would hire as my corner man? My mom.

  Daniel Tosh

  Mom, Sports, Hurt

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• I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Nice, Thinking

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• Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

  Armstrong Williams

  Sports, Confidence, Dream

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• A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Vegetables, Ice

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• It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.

  Danny DeVito

  Dark, Ice, Two

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