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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• When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

  Mike Tyson

  Finishers

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

  Ferdie Pacheco

  Mistake, Fighting, Made

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• My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing

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

  Robert Goulet

  Kids, Fans

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspiration, Fighting, Winning

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2015

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• I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

  Louis C. K.

  Excited

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 6, 2011.

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• That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

  George Foreman

  Positive, Fighting, Mma

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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 grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

  Hugh Laurie

  Men, Hands, White

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

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• Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Knows, Inevitability

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