Boxing Quotes - Page 11

• I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Mother, Manson

  "The chips run out in Las Vegas" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2002.

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• I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

  Randall Cobb

  Funny, Mexican, Pals

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• When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Skulls, Anarchy

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• I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly civilized form, in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. All of this seems to me quite amazing, because it is so disciplined, so controlled. It's ritualized, but absolutely genuine. And the cultural structure built around that ritual is absolutely fascinating to me. And it seems to me that boxing is one of those structures that is designed to promote harmony. I think that it is a stove that contains that fire in us and makes it safe and useful.

  Katherine Dunn

  Thinking, Violence, Harmony

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was so good at boxing because I worked hard. I worked harder than anybody. When other boxers used to box in the gym, three or four rounds, I used to box 10-20 rounds.

  Jake LaMotta

  Gym

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

  Don King

  Credibility

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• I will fight for America till the day I drop.

  Don King

  Fighting, America

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• It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

  Muhammad Ali

  Gorillas, Killers, Thrillers

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• There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Retirement, Greatness, People

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2009

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• I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.

  George Foreman

  Age, Given, Demographics

  "George Foreman: Giving Life an Extra Punch". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing.

  Evander Holyfield

  Art, Hurt, Believe

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• They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they didn't show it. In 2008, they did not even mention boxing at all. You would think the United States didn't have a boxing team in 2008.

  Evander Holyfield

  Team, Thinking, United States

  "Holyfield: 'I just believe that I can'". Interview with Bryan Armen Graham, www.si.com. January 21, 2011.

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• The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.

  Curtis Jackson

  Sports, Opportunity, Culture

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• You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.

  Don King

  Thinking, May, Problem

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• When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.

  Don King

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• If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.

  Don King

  Determination, Frustration, Men

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• I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

  Don King

  Ghetto, Men, Numbers

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• I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.

  Don King

  Bob

  "Don King: Only in America". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

  Don King

  Taken, Days Off, World

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• There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.

  Don King

  Sports, Dirty, Needs

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• Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.

  Don King

  Kings, Men, Years

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• When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.

  Don King

  Mean, Winning, Brain

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• If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection.

  Don King

  Substance, Pizzazz, Protection

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• I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.

  Don King

  School, Iron, Twenties

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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