Boxing Quotes - Page 24

• You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I'm the Heavyweight Champion! Can't nobody stop me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Champion, Heavyweights, Black

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• I liked that title. I didn't want to lose it to anybody, but if I had to lose it, I'm glad I lost it to you. You're a good fighter and gonna be a great champ.

  Jersey Joe Walcott

  Titles, Want, Fighter

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• Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

  Floyd Patterson

  Ku Klux Klan, People, Clay

  "Let's not Pretend Ali was Gandhi". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 04, 2002.

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• You been hearing about how bad I am since you were a little kid with mess in your pants! Tonight, I'm gonna whip you till you cry like a baby.

  Muhammad Ali

  Baby, Kids, Tonight

  Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham (2015). “The Greatest: My Own Story”, p.364, Graymalkin Media

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• You can never underestimate the prince, I'm always there. The prince will never die. I ain't bragging, but I ain't seen nobody, and I mean nobody, come to the ring in such style, with such flair, charisma, I'm talking about bringing it all, a full package. I mean who would you know that could come out in a flying carpet. Come out like a concert, dancing, with like, oozing confidence, and then get in and take somebody out. Come on, do you know anybody in the history of the sport, that did what Prince Naseem did. And I ain't trying to brag, but I was bloody good at it.

  Naseem Hamed

  Sports, Mean, Talking

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• Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Hurt, Gone, Floyd Mayweather

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• No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

  Tommy Gibbons

  Color, Heavyweights, Champion

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• I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Fighting, Grieving

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• If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

  A. J. Liebling

  Girl, Crazy, Drunk

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• I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Pages, Holy

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• I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

  Don King

  Cease

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• If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he
  hopped.

  Don King

  Funny, Wings, Bumps

  "The Daily Show" with Stephen Colbert, www.imdb.com.

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• Let's get ready to rumble!

  Michael Buffer

  Rumble, Ready

  Quoted in Newsday, 4 Feb. 1989

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• Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Smart, Fighting, Thinking

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• Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

  Ray Mancini

  Funny, Care, Retired

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• My business is hurting people.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Funny, Hurt, Business

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• I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?

  Mike Tyson

  Sacrifice, Getting Laid, Mike

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• The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Walking Away

  "MISSION TO BE BEST / Andre Ward, 8-0, gets ready for his first 8-round fight" by John Crumpacker, www.sfgate.com. April 25, 2006.

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• I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.

  Norman Mailer

  Fighting, Artist, Discipline

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• James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Character, Practice, Actors

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

  Hans Kmoch

  Training, Shadow, Important

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• Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.21, Tuttle Publishing

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• Boxing’s an art, it’s a science, and you don’t go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to run into one of these bricks by mistake [looks at his fists], that’s their fault.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Running, Art, Motivation

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• Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

  Don King

  Struggle, Reality, Errors

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• Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Guy, Want

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