Boxing Quotes - Page 26

• The only thing on my mind is getting into that ring and destroying a boxing myth, someone who has reached a level of infamy through doing a number of stupid things.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Stupid, Numbers

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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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• The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Country, Fighting, Poverty

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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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• People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Football, Believe

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• Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people move.

  Channing Tatum

  Moving, Fighting, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I don't want any sports anymore, except fighting which is the only sport I really watch - whether it's boxing or UFC. I don't know why. I think maybe it's an aspiration I didn't get the chance to explore more, but I don't think my father expected anything from me, I think it's more what I put on myself.

  Channing Tatum

  Sports, Father, Fighting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I sometimes say I am in a relationship with boxing.

  Marlen Esparza

  Sometimes

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• I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Art, Moving, Sight

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• No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Brain, Boxers, Illness

  "Oprah Talks to Muhammad Ali". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2001.

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• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Notebook, Baseball, Football

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• The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Father, Team

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, April 22, 1961.

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• British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match; personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.

  Andre Maurois

  Games, Hitting, Cricket

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.

  Nelson Mandela

  Body, Violence, Retreat

  "Remembering Mandela, the Boxer" by Keegan Hamilton, grantland.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Bullfighting, Sardines

  Song: Style

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• I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Gloves, Moments, Embedded

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• Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, People, Mind

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• I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, People, Brutality

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• Nothing will kill boxing, and nothing can save it.

  Larry Merchant

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• Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

  Manny Pacquiao

  Hard Work, Needs, Remember

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