Boxers Quotes - Page 8

• Winning the title itself is the most rewarding. That is the goal of every boxers.

  Tomoki Kameda

  Winning, Goal, Titles

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Song, Writing, Men

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.

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• I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Pounds, Walks

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• Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

  Muhammad Ali

  Struggle, Kentucky, Next Week

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Telling The Truth, Interest

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sunday, Church On Sunday, Church

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political and social environment has changed. The chickens are coming home to roost - and the time to account for past sins is approaching.

  Cesar Chavez

  Home, Past, Times Are Changing

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.296, Penguin

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• Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity

  Barney Kessel

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Running, Inspirational Sports, Winning

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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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• Boxers are going away and not getting decisions and are losing, so it's not looking good for us, is it, as a nation? Thanks for pointing that out. It's put even more pressure on me now. I don't mind that at all. I love pressure.

  Carl Froch

  Sports, Decision, Mind

  "Carl Froch ready to roll again and end sorry year for Brits on a high" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.

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• You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.

  Liam Neeson

  Stage

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• Come on, Ella. Sleep green.' Ignoring him, I got into bed wearing a T-shirt and boxer shorts printed with penguins. I reached over to the nightstand and flipped off the lamp. A moment of silence, and then I heard a lecherous murmur. 'I like your penguins.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sleep, Silence, Bed

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.256, Macmillan

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• He was almost naked too, but I hadn't quite gotten to his boxers yet. (They were silk because, honestly what else would Adrian wear?)

  Richelle Mead

  Naked, Honestly, Silk

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.229, Penguin

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• Just know that if you want to be a boxer you're going to get your face beaten constantly but then you may end up being a Mayweather or an Ali at the end of the day.

  Kanye West

  The End Of The Day, May, Want

  "Kanye West: 'People didn't understand mine and Kim Kardashian's interracial relationship'" by Zoe Shenton, www.mirror.co.uk. June 18, 2014.

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• I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

  Mickey Kaus

  Doctrine, Beef, Democratic

  RealClearPolitics interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

  Mickey Kaus

  Running, Government, Unions

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• Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn’t mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!)

  Rick Riordan

  Battle, Shorts, Carter

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I respect that you want to protect your niece. You know, I didn't want my daughter to become a boxer. Neither did Mohammad. But Joe Frazier, on the other hand, he had his baby girl boxing in the crib.

  George Foreman

  Girl, Daughter, Baby

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• I used to love to see Willie Pep and Ray Robinson. To me, the epitome of a great athlete is a great boxer. I just love the rhythm of seeing a man dance, slip punches. I loved the dancers and boxers. I would see them and be mesmerized.

  Emanuel Steward

  Athlete, Men, Dancer

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• A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Boxing, Ems

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• Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Husband, Grandmother, Coats

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• Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport.
  Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey.

  George Aaron Barton

  Sports, New York, Fighting

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• Mike Tyson’s a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter.

  Royce Gracie

  Fighter, Tyson, Mike

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• A boxer makes a comeback for two reasons: either he’s broke or he needs the money.

  Alan Minter

  Two, Needs, Comeback

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