Boxing Quotes - Page 29

• Truth had me up against the ropes
  And semi-conscious without no boxing skills.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Skills, Hip Hop

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• You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

  Emanuel Steward

  Soccer, Sports, Fighting

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• Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

  Russell Peters

  Fighting, Games, Plans

  "How Russell Peters Got The Last Laugh". Interview with Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2013.

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• I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, World

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Feb 27, 2013

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• Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fall, Fighting, Men

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• I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived. I don't have a mark on my face, and I upset Sonny Liston, and I just turned twenty-two years old. I must be the greatest. I showed the world. I talk to God everyday. I know the real God. I shook up the world, I'm the king of the world. You must listen to me. I am the greatest! I can't be beat!

  Muhammad Ali

  Kings, Real, Years

  "Sound and Fury : Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship". Book by Dave Kindred, 2007.

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• I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked!

  Muhammad Ali

  Way, Should, Stamps

  Twitter post from Oct 04, 2010

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• Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.

  Muhammad Ali

  Skills, Champion, Stronger

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2011

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• I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, Pace

  Twitter post from May 25, 2012

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• For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

  Muhammad Ali

  Jesus, Teaching, Men

  "Watching Rocky Ii With Muhammad Ali" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. July 31, 1979.

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• The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

  Muhammad Ali

  Careers, World, Tickets

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• That's okay, I'm still the Greatest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Great Boxing, Okay, Stills

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.

  Muhammad Ali

  Eye, Hands, Like A Butterfly

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• Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life Is Like, Life Is

  "On Boxing". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.

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• Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam

  Michael Spinks

  Jobs, Best Job, People

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• I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.

  Shayne Ward

  Gloves, Muhammad, Stability

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• Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Trying, Opponents

  Interview, African summit talks, Angola, "The Palm Beach Post" Newspaper, (p.A8), January 12, 1976.

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• I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

  Idi Amin

  Athlete, Champion, Want

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• In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

  Damon Runyon

  Games, Stories, Narrative

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• Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

  Floyd Patterson

  Black, Clay, Cassius

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• Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Sports, World, Forget

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

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• The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

  Barry McGuigan

  Sadness, Trouble, Ends

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

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• Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

  Barry McGuigan

  Training, Century, Method

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

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• I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.

  Barry McGuigan

  Thinking, People, Together

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

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• The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you

  Marvin Hagler

  Fighting, Differences, Stopping

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