Boxing Champions Quotes

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

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Boxing, Killers

  Twitter post from May 21, 2013

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• Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, Athlete, Boxing

  "Q: Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned? A: Nah, I'm not that brave or clever. I wouldn't know how to tie a rope, know what I mean?". www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2005.

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

  George Foreman

  Funny, Boxing, Shadow

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• I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Feb 18, 2013

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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

  Jack Dempsey

  Funny, Thinking, Boxing

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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, Boxing, Tennis

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• A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

  Jack Dempsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Sports, Boxing

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 17, 2015

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• If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Sports

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2010

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

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Boxing, Champion

  Twitter post from Jan 2, 2017

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• As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

  Budd Schulberg

  Hate, Boxing, I Hate

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.241, Open Road Media

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• Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Believe, Past

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• There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

  Marvin Hagler

  Sports, Media, Order

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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, Boxing

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Sep 29, 2012

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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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• A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

  Sonny Liston

  Cowboy, People, Boxing

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• There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiration, Fighting, Winning

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2015

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• Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

  Roger Kahn

  Boxing, Kidneys, Halls

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Boxing, Rings

  "On Boxing". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

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• Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Boxing, Religion, Celebration

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

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• Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, America, Boxing

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

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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.

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Sports, Boxing

  FaceBook post by Evander Holyfield from May 16, 2016

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• Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

  Joe Frazier

  Funny, Sports, Money

  "Underdog Boxing: Pumped up for the Pacquiao-Mosley undercard fights" by Carlo L.Pamintuan, www.gmanetwork.com. February 10, 2011.

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