Boxing Quotes - Page 5

• Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, America, Theater

  Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

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• They Only Made One Mistake, They Signed This Fight.

  Ferdie Pacheco

  Mistake, Fighting, Made

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• I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Hurt, Thinking

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Fighting, Successful

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

  Rod Taylor

  Surfing, Clubs, Captains

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• What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

  Gerald McRaney

  Hands, Gossip, Grain Of Salt

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• I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

  Billy Joel

  New York, Book, Kids

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• I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

  James Earl Jones

  Father, Real, Actors

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• Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

  Dick Schaap

  Winning, Sugar, Months

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• Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, People, Might

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• I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

  Robert Goulet

  Kids, Fans

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• I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Guy, Fighter

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jun 10, 2013

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• Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Humble, Fighting

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• Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Smart, Fighting

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• I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Feb 18, 2013

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• There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.

  Don King

  Lying, Mind, Connected

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• Lie down so I can recognise you

  Willie Pep

  Motivational, Lying, Recognise You

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• Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Sin, Inactivity

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• I want to keep fighting because it's the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

  George Foreman

  Fighting, Hamburgers, Want

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• Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

  Cus D'Amato

  Smart, Mean, Target

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• I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.

  Mark Kaylor

  Fighting, Christie

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• My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Brother, Father

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• I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.

  Jim Watt

  Bottles, Gloves, Milk

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• How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

  Lennox Lewis

  Men, Minutes, Sentences

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• Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Heart, Cassius

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2011

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