Boxing Quotes - Page 6

• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  Omar Epps

  Sports, Fighting, Thinking

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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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• In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat

  Angelo Dundee

  Years, Heat, Dundee

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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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• 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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• 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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• That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

  David O. Russell

  Beautiful, Sports, Spiritual

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• I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, Legacy, Checks

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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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• When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

  Bob Seger

  Relationship, Wedding, Together

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• Got any excuses tonight Roy?

  Antonio Tarver

  Tonight, Excuse

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• The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

  Howard Cosell

  Goodbye, Thinking, May

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• We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

  Drew Bundini Brown

  Butterfly, Men, Bees

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• I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

  Lionel Rose

  Sports, Winning, Differences

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• If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

  Marvin Hagler

  Cutting, Gloves, Bigs

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• I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

  Muhammad Ali

  Quarrels, Great Boxing, Viet Cong

  Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali (1996). “Muhammad Ali in perspective”, Harpercollins

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• I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cocky, Greatness, Names

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

  Lennox Lewis

  Character, Cartoon, Sound

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• Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

  Joe Frazier

  Funny, Sports, Money

  "Underdog Boxing: Pumped up for the Pacquiao-Mosley undercard fights" by Carlo L.Pamintuan, www.gmanetwork.com. February 10, 2011.

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• Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

  Georges Carpentier

  Art, Half, Boxing Champions

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• Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

  Alan Minter

  Funny, Sports, Stupid

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• Boxing is just show business with blood.

  Frank Bruno

  Blood, Shows, Show Business

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