32 Quotes on Boxing

• The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.

  Author: Bob Verdi

• Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

  Author: Gene Tunney

• As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

  Author: Gene Tunney

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

  Author: Rod Taylor

• It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

  Author: Jimmy Smits

• The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• 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.

  Author: Dick Schaap

• The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

  Author: Emo Philips

• The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

  Author: Joyce Oates

• I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then.

  Author: Ken Norton

• Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.

  Author: Michael Moorer

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

  Author: Alan Minter

• 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.

  Author: Gerald McRaney

• I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.

  Author: Sugar Leonard

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

  Author: Sugar Leonard

• Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

  Author: Sugar Leonard

• Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

  Author: Sugar Leonard

• Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

  Author: Roger Kahn

• I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

  Author: Walter Hill

• I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

  Author: Walter Hill

• In boxing, everybody has their favorites.

  Author: Thomas Hearns

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

  Author: Robert Goulet

• I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

  Author: George Foreman

• New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

  Author: John Cusack

• Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

  Author: Frank Bruno

• When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

  Author: John Barrymore

• In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

  Author: Joseph Barbera

• Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

  Author: Alexis Arguello

• See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

  Author: Alexis Arguello

• Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

  Author: Alexis Arguello

• I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

  Author: Muhammad Ali

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