Boxing Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

  Sam Simon

  Fans, Should, Bigs

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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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• Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

  Kenny Anderson

  Congratulations, Winning, Offering

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• I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sports, Football, Latin

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.

  John Molina, Jr.

  Giving Up, Keys, Mma

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• When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Hurt, Brain, Feels

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Giving, Brain, Damage

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the athletes are being exploited. But that narrative doesn't hold up very well in the world of MMA, where 99 percent of fighters are amateurs who will never earn a dime. They aren't seeking fame and fortune. For the most part, these guys are fighting because they want to and because it gives them an opportunity to strive for something big in their lives. It gives them a chance to become their best selves.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Athlete, Fighting, Opportunity

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming.

  Todd Burpo

  Blow, Fighter, Vicious

  Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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