Boxing Quotes - Page 31

• My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

  Mike Tyson

  House, Guy, Tragic

  "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'" by Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.

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• I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

  Mike Tyson

  Kings, Empires, Barbarians

  "Tyson reflects on life as the 'baddest man on the planet'" by Anushka Asthana, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2008.

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• I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

  Mike Tyson

  Rip, Talking, Guy

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• This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was built on being extremely violent. I just don't know how to deal with that right now. I don't even go to strip clubs no more. I don't know who I am sometimes, but I am not the guy I used to be. I'm not an angel or anything. I'm still lascivious, periodically. I'm just looking for some balance in my life.

  Mike Tyson

  Angel, Men, Who I Am

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, Brain, Trying

  Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

  Muhammad Ali

  Years, Looks, World

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• I'm gonna make a ton of money on the rematch, but that decision was horrible.

  Bob Arum

  Decision, Rematches, Horrible

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• They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.

  George Foreman

  Fighting, Guy, Days Off

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• You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

  Joe Frazier

  Black, Left Handed, Left

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• Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

  Joe Frazier

  Fighting, Streets

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• I don't know, I'm not from this neighborhood."-to Jake LaMotta after a night of drinking when LaMotta asked "is that the sun or the moon?

  Rocky Graziano

  Drinking, Moon, Night

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• Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

  Rocky Graziano

  Boys, Hey, Bad Boy

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• Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, White, Black

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• You stick to commentating, let me do the fighting.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, Sticks, Let Me

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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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• To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.

  Larry Merchant

  Glasses, Insult, Chins

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• Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down?

  Larry Merchant

  Fall, Punishment, Strategy

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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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• There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle.

  Emanuel Steward

  Believe, Thinking, Oxygen

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• When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.

  Emanuel Steward

  Kids, Artist, Littles

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• I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

  Emanuel Steward

  Eight, Games, Feelings

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• I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

  Brittany Snow

  Girl, Mean, Fighting

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• Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

  Steven Yeun

  Basketball, People, Guy

  "Q&A – Steven Yeun (Glenn)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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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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• 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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