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The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Author:
Bob Verdi
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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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
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But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.
Author:
Rod Taylor
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I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.
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Leon Spinks
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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
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The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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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.
Author:
Dick Schaap
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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.
Author:
Dick Schaap
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It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
Author:
Dick Schaap
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Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes.
Author:
Charles Pickering
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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
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Author:
Emo Philips
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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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
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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
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Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.
Author:
Alan Minter
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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.
Author:
Gerald McRaney
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A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
Author:
Sonny Liston
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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
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I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
Author:
Alicia Keys
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Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Author:
Roger Kahn
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I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
Author:
James Jones
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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.
Author:
Billy Joel
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Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.
Author:
Evander Holyfield
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
Author:
Walter Hill
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I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.
Author:
Walter Hill
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I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
Author:
Walter Hill
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In boxing, everybody has their favorites.
Author:
Thomas Hearns
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One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.
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Tonya Harding
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There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
Author:
Marvin Hagler
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I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.
Author:
Robert Goulet
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People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.
Author:
Morgan Freeman
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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.
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Joe Frazier
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Boxing is just show business with blood.
Author:
Bruno Frank
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Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
Author:
George Foreman
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I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
Author:
George Foreman
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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.
Author:
Omar Epps
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I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
Author:
Omar Epps
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Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.
Author:
Dustin Diamond
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I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
Author:
Danny DeVito
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Author:
Jack Dempsey
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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
Author:
John Cusack
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All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
Author:
Gerry Cooney
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You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.
Author:
Gerry Cooney
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Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
Author:
Gerry Cooney
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Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
Author:
Georges Carpentier
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I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.
Author:
Sophia Bush
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Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
Author:
Frank Bruno
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When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
Author:
Frank Bruno
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Boxing is show-business with blood.
Author:
David Belasco
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
Author:
John Barrymore
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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
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But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.
Author:
Roone Arledge
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I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.
Author:
Alexis Arguello
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Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
Author:
Alexis Arguello
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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
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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
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
Author:
Alexis Arguello
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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
