Boxing Quotes - Page 17

• Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Party, Fighting, Weekend

  "Floyd Mayweather says delays just made fight with Manny Pacquiao bigger" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2015.

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• Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Wrestling, Savages, Behavior

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• There are two kinds of people in boxing. Those who say, 'Oh, boy; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me,' and those who say, 'Big problem; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me.'

  Jim Lampley

  Writing, Boys, Two

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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, Boxers, Enjoyment

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• I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Goes On, Bells

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Real, War

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• The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.

  Gilbert Highet

  Art, Real, Fighting

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• Nobody knows what the future holds, but right now, I'm cool and comfortable and having no second thoughts at all about retirement. I had a good career, I won every world title, but boxing is wear and tear on the body. It's time to hang 'em up. I'm looking forward to working with some up-and-coming kids, going on walks, and taking vacations.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Retirement, Kids, Vacation

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• When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA.

  Jake Hecht

  Mma, Guy, Wanted

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.

  Jake Hecht

  Sports, Long, Competition

  Interview with Garrett Derr, bleacherreport.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

  William Safire

  Knowing, Space, Giving

  William Safire (1991). “Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage”, Laurel

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• By the time I retire, I will have fought the best. I will have made my money. Maybe I'll be a boxing commentator. I'll go back to school, definitely. I already have a plan. My life's set. I'll be on an island, married, playing golf in the sun. That will be my life.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  School, Golf, Islands

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• Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Blood, Age, Six

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• I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Children, Golf, Mines

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• Ever since I've been boxing, it's always been the case that when I go inside the ring a switch goes off and my attitude changes totally from the person I am outside it. I really can't explain why or how.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Attitude, Cases, Rings

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• I try to find out what the guy's strengths and weaknesses are. Like in boxing, I'd be a counter-puncher. Whatever he does well, I try to take advantage of what he doesn't do well.

  Antonio Gates

  Guy, Trying, Weakness

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• Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Light, Long

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• Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

  George Foreman

  Brain, Damage

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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, Gloves

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• My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.

  John Molina, Jr.

  Dad, Years, Gears

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• Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.

  Danny Garcia

  Scream, Minutes, Stuck

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• My way of joking is to tell the truth

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Joking Around, Way

  1904 Peter Keegan to Nora Reilly. John Bull's Other Island, act 2.

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• If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing.

  Chael Sonnen

  Mean, Needs, Defense

  "Learn 3 Grappling Techniques From UFC Star Chael Sonnen". Interview with Lito Angeles, blackbeltmag.com. October 11, 2011.

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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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• Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers

  Manny Pacquiao

  Perseverance, Prayer, Character

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