Boxers Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• And I'll wash your other clothes. Shall I also order you a new set of leathers?" "Don't-" Wrath shut his mouth. "Sure. That'd be great. And, ah, could you get me some boxers? Black? XXL?

  J.R. Ward

  Wrath, Order, Clothes

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.77, Penguin

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• Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.

  Muhammad Ali

  "Muhammad Ali & Young Muslims". Interview with Shaheen Ahmed and Abdul Malik Mujahid for "Young Muslim" Magazine, www.soundvision.com.

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• I guess we both lose the bet. What bet Thomas asked entering the room. Boxers or briefs Jeanne Louise answered. I was betting boxers and Elspeth thought briefs. Instead he went commando!! So be warned ladies, don't assume they are wearing any undies!!

  Lynsay Sands

  Entering, Rooms, Assuming

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• She couldn't take her eyes off the boxers. Mostly, she had a view of the back, but he turned halfway when he looked over. She commanded herself not to look at the front flap, which, of course, was exactly what she honed in on. He spit and put his mouth under the tap to get some water. All while just wearing underwear. All while she just stared at the crucial spot of the Action Pants.

  Maureen Johnson

  Eye, Views, Water

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• Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.

  Jay-Z

  Sports, Stupid, Athlete

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• Your grandpa was a boxer in his youth. Sexiest thing I'd ever seen, let me tell you. He wore these short little shorts, and sweat was always dripping down his hairy chest.

  Gena Showalter

  Sweat, Grandpa, Littles

  "Alice in Zombieland". Book by Gena Showalter, 2012.

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• The will must be stronger than the skill.

  Muhammad Ali

  Courage, Perseverance, Adversity

  Muhammad Ali, Richard Durham (2015). “The Greatest: My Own Story”, p.328, Graymalkin Media

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• I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Educational, Government

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• Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. Five layers between us.

  John Green

  Sex, Eye, Reflection

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time gunmen stormed into our hotel in Cairo. I heard shots coming from the lobby and ran downstairs to check on my dad. By the time I got there, he was just calmly zipping up his workbag while three unconscious gunmen hung by their feet from the chandelier, their robes falling over their heads so you could see their boxer shorts. Dad claimed not to have witnessed anything, and in the end the police blamed a freak chandelier malfunction.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Fall, Mean

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• Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

  Christopher Moore

  Turtles, Sharks, Sea

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Land, Boxing, Percentages

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

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• I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sports, Believe, Objects

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

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• I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

  Liam Neeson

  Friday, Monday, Two

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• My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

  Susana Martinez

  Mom, Dad, Marine

  "Republican Convention: Susana Martinez Admits Differences but Backs Romney" by Andrew O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.

  Apolo Ohno

  Football, Dad, Team

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• Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Jobs, People, Serious

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• With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Fighting, Boxing, Easy

  "Manny Pacquiao is a new man". Interview with Jeremy Schaap, www.espn.com. December 3, 2012.

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• It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  America, Stories, Gravestone

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• It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does everyone know that you are a dog, they know what kind of a dog you are, who you run with, where you hide your bones, the accidental piddle behind the couch, the fight you got into with the boxer, and your thoughts on the hot poodle down the street.

  Nancy Willard

  Running, Dog, Fighting

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• Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

  Tex Winter

  Basketball, Moving, Play

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• Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

  George Orwell

  Cat, Listening, Usual

  David Ball, George Orwell (1984). “George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.28, Barron's Educational Series

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• They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

  Mike Tyson

  Crazy, Boxing, Recluse

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