Boxing Quotes - Page 15

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

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Hurt, Winning

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• Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, Crazy

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• I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever.

  Katrina Bowden

  Stress, Yoga, Tone

  "Face Time | Katrina Bowden". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

  Don King

  Religious, Moments

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

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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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• 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 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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• With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

  Nonito Donaire

  Beautiful, Sports

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• For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

  Sean Patrick Flanery

  Years, Everyday, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

  Jerry Ferrara

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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

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• I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Senior, Mom, Friday

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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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• I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

  Dean Norris

  School, College, Black

  "Q&A – Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. May 2010.

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• For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.

  Molly Sims

  Yoga, Class, Names

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• It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Different, Businessman

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's more tension in golf than in boxing because golfers bring it on themselves. It's silly really because it's not as if the golf ball is going to jump up and belt you on the whiskers, is it?

  Henry Cooper

  Silly, Golf, Balls

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• Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Emotional, Ideas

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

  Hilary Swank

  Past, Everyday, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Fighting, Giving, Give Me Strength

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

  Barbara Johnson

  Heaven, Want, Criminal Mind

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.58, Zondervan

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• I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. Its always been a part of me.

  T. J. Thyne

  Running, Track, Work Out

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• Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!

  Charlie Flynn

  Men, Sound, Lions

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• Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

  Charlie Flynn

  Hearing, Used, Commonwealth

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• I'm not a big drinker. I don't really drink at all. But my dad and his pals will want to have a good swally because their nerves will be in some state, man!

  Charlie Flynn

  Dad, Men, Nerves

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