Boxing Quotes - Page 40

• King's an equal opportunity dirtbag, he screws everybody.

  Michael Spinks

  Kings, Opportunity, Equal

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• When Don King's fighters lose their titles they come back fighting on the undercard for peanuts. King owns all the top heavyweights and we spar against each other but we get charged for it and that comes out of our purses.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Fighting, Heavyweights

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• If you don't follow Don King, you get stepped on.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Ifs

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• Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

  Tim Witherspoon

  Kings, Winning, Forget

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• I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

  Jack Newfield

  Kings, Stealing, More Money

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• Don King is a hip exploiter, an intelligent flesh peddler

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Intelligent, Flesh

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• He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

  Jack Newfield

  Vanity, Insecurity, Vices

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• I don't fight for nobody else because Don King has made me money. Yet I hear people saying Don King is exploiting me. I made $15.5 million with Don. How would you like to be exploited and make $15.5 million?

  Jack Newfield

  Kings, Fighting, People

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• Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Artist, Years

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• I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Blood, Sweat

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• Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

  Larry Holmes

  Light, Wings, Weight

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• This is the lying thieving mother who cut me $500,000.

  Larry Holmes

  Mother, Lying, Cutting

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• King gives you this 'bro' stuff and tells you that the white man did this and we should stick together. Then he starts cutting your purse. I was with him for six years. You put your head in a noose when you sign with Don King.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Kings, Cutting, Men

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• King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.

  Mike Tyson

  Kings, Office, House

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• There is still boxing, but there's just no money in it anymore. If you went around the world and asked a bunch of people under 20 years old, to name a boxer, I bet they couldn't name one. They'd be able to name a UFC fighter though. When I was younger there was Mike Tyson and we watched everything. I'm not saying its gone, or its going to go, and it could easily be ignited by another fighter, but it's just that idea that UFC is more violent, that desire for more spectacle, has captured people's attention.

  Hugh Jackman

  People, Desire, Attention

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• I have read articles. I don't need to go out there and keep saying it. The people that 'know boxing.' Everybody is out there saying it. But that's OK. I am going to go out there and shut everybody up.

  Brandon Rios

  People

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Boxing and chess are similar. It’s about the choice of means. Sometimes I need a pawn, a bishop or a knight to defeat my opponent. It’s about finding the best way. A good boxer has to be variable. He doesn’t just need to know how to punch. He must also know how to protect himself, how to defend, how to avoid the opponent’s punches. Only a complete fighter can become champion.

  Lennox Lewis

  Mean, Choices, Champion

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I’'m convinced of that. There you learn everything that you’ll need later as a pro. Someone who’s got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesn’t lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, you’re prepared for anything, you’ve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighting, Successful, Champion

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. That’s what he’'ll be remembered for. But good boxing doesn’t work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he’'d come a cropper some day.

  Lennox Lewis

  Fighter, Fit, Tyson

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback. He smoothed the way for us. He wasn’t just a great person who had conviction, but made the sport of boxing great. He was the first superstar, he made our stock rise. Without him we wouldn’t have earned so much. Americans from every walk of life have contributed to the foundation: Bill Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt. Unfortunately I was the only American athlete to make a donation. There’s not enough respect in our business.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Athlete, Superstar

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Boxing always was corrupt and always will be corrupt. The three world champion's belts really are absurd. One single association would make this business more reputable. Just as powerful as the promoters, is the media. The cable networks control the cash flow. You can’t ignore the influence the media and the promoters have on the sport. They have a financial objective - high ratings, selling pay-per-views and selling out arenas. Because of the system, the public may not be seeing the best the sport has to offer, but what sells.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Powerful, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Boxing is a sport that is largely dominated by machos, by men who think we have to conform to a very specific role model. The ideal boxer doesn't think too much, is raw and brimming with strength. I am also fascinated by strength, but for me style is a part of that.

  Orlando Cruz

  Sports, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I came out as a gay as I have earned myself respect as an athlete. I have only lost 2 out of 22 professional fights. I knocked out some of my opponents in the first round. But I never really received respect as a person. That's something I had come to realize over the past few years. The end of my boxing career is no longer that far off, and it was time for me to make peace with myself. And there was a second reason for me to come out: I hoped it would make me a better boxer.

  Orlando Cruz

  Athlete, Gay, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.

  Brian London

  Encouragement, Father, Army

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy; and the price is that he can reach your face.

  Ehud Barak

  Guy, Enough, Your Face

  Source: www.politico.com

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