Boxers Quotes - Page 8

• These guys from the nation's capital - now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians.

  George Foreman

  Thinking, Guy, Politician

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• I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that's ever lived; like actual technical boxer.

  Ronda Rousey

  Thinking, Mma, Floyd Mayweather

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• A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.

  George Foreman

  Bigs

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

  Adam Sandler

  Athlete, Feelings, Wish

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Brain, Illness

  "Oprah Talks to Muhammad Ali". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2001.

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• I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, "Hey, you can't run too much." Or if you're a boxer you say, "Hey, you can only box three rounds." It's not right!

  Tommy Lasorda

  Running, Men, Track

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• Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

  Mickey Rourke

  Camps, Isolated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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• I have a thing for men's boxer briefs and a tank top. If I'm wearing them, I'm a happy gal.

  Liz Vassey

  Men, Tanks, Gals

  "Liz Vassey: Analyze This". Interview with Elizabeth Sanchez, www.mensfitness.com.

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• Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.

  Jo Nesbo

  Wall, Long, Cracks

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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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• Jagdish Singh was my basic coach and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

  Vijender Singh

  Sports, Teaching, Boxing

  "I am happy with my preparations: Vijender Singh". The Times of India Interview, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. June 29, 2012.

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• My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a light engineer, and a then a publican. My mum was a traditional housewife and mother. They showed my brother and I unconditional love.

  Anthony Browne

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

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• When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?

  Vijender Singh

  Believe, Boxing, Way

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

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• I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Reality, Names, President

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• Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Song, Writing, Men

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.

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• I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Pounds, Walks

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• They found a cave once lived in by Osama bin Laden and the only thing in the cave were some boxer undershorts, and macaroni. I'm telling you, you add an old stack of Playboys, this could be my place. It's like I have a twin.

  David Letterman

  Add, Caves, Twins

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• I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.

  Daniel Jacobs

  Fun, People, Boxing

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• Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

  Billy Joel

  Courage, Fighting, Titles

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• The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Boxing, Enjoyment

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• Every year is different. I'm not getting any younger trying to keep it going. It's always a challenge. It's like a boxer going into a ring. You never can tell what's going to work and what's not going to work until you're in action and everything is going on around you. It's very intense and always a challenge and always a thrill.

  Hank Williams III

  Years, Challenges, Trying

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• I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Baseball, Football, Mother

  "Sugar Ray Leonard Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.

  George Tahdooahnippah

  Uncles, Father, Native American

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• If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Half, Littles

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