Boxing Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Hurt, Motivation, Fighter

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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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• Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.

  Norman Corwin

  Photography, Art, Distance

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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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• Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.

  Larry Merchant

  May, Six Packs, Stomach

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• Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

  Joe Frazier

  Boys, Champion, Mind

  Interview With Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.

  Ray Mancini

  Hero, Wow, Fame

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• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  Cara Castronuova

  Ideas, Beats, Rings

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• It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.

  Cara Castronuova

  Hurt, Athlete, Fighting

  "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

  Billy Joe Saunders

  Drinking, Giving, Smoking

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• There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

  Billy Joe Saunders

  Building Up, Buzz, Talent

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• My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.

  Teri Polo

  Anniversary, Husband, Night

  "Teri Polo: Teri on a Tear". Interview with Dennis Hensley, movieline.com. September 1, 2001.

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• I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.

  Sung-Hi Lee

  Art, Fans, Huge

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