Boxing Quotes - Page 13

• When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

  Joe Louis

  Government, Owing, Broke

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• Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

  Nonito Donaire

  Father, Our Family

  THE RING Interview, www.ringtv.com.

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• I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.

  Evander Holyfield

  Decision, Ears, Beats

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Running, Thinking, Work Out

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• I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

  Peter Berg

  Football, Character, Hockey

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• I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

  Nonito Donaire

  Brother, Fighting, My Brother

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• Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

  Sharon Horgan

  Royal Wedding, House, Dawn

  "I've devised a game for bland celebrity interviews: swap one star's questions with another's answers" by Sharon Horgan, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2008.

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• I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

  Mark McGrath

  Fans, Strategy, Combat

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

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• Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Hurt, Winning

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• Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.

  Don King

  America, Space, People

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• Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.

  Don King

  Integrity, Lying, Numbers

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• You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.

  Don King

  Thinking, Stills

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• I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

  Don King

  Tired, Energy, God Speaking

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• They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting judges, all the way down to laundering money. Everything but the Lindbergh baby.

  Don King

  Baby, Fighting, Men

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• You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

  Don King

  Animal, Night, Desert

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• I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

  Don King

  Doors, Boards, Kicks

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

  Don King

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• I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.

  Don King

  Snow, Pay, Panama

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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