Boxing Matches Quotes

• I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, People, Boxing

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• Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

  Sharon Horgan

  Royal Wedding, Boxing, House

  "I've devised a game for bland celebrity interviews: swap one star's questions with another's answers" by Sharon Horgan, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2008.

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• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Sports, Determination

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 10, 2014

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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.

  Sonny Liston

  Cowboy, People, Boxing

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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.

  Roone Arledge

  People, Boxing, News

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

  John Cusack

  Movie, New York, Boxing

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• I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

  George Foreman

  Boxing, Shapes, Fighter

  "Hungry for more". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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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.

  Evander Holyfield

  Mistake, Boxing, Dancing

  "Evander Holyfield: Gets Ready For Dancing with the Stars, Tyson, Steroids". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 27, 2005.

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• And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Useless, Chaos, Forget

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• Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Winning, Talking, Boxing

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

  Don King

  People, Boxing, Together

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• Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

  Charles Bukowski

  Party, Drinking, Dirty

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Winning, Mind, Important

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.

  Charles Bukowski

  Party, Dirty, Sleep

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• People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

  George Foreman

  Hurt, People, Boxing

  "George Foreman: Giving Life an Extra Punch". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth, and the phoenix with incendiary sun. And innocence belongs to us as it did to ancient Greek athletes, who never wore clothes for their footraces or boxing matches but rather oiled themselves until their nude bodies glistened in the sunlight.

  Janet Lembke

  Children, Athlete, Thinking

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• People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.

  Markus Zusak

  Couple, Heart, Men

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• I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Fighting

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• That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Hockey, Fighting, Weekend

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• During a charity boxing match on Friday, Mitt Romney lasted two rounds against Evander Holyfield and raised a million dollars. It was just like Holyfield's fight with Mike Tyson, except Romney chewed off his other ear talking about his 18 grandchildren.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Friday, Fighting, Grandchildren

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• Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Art, Fighting, Museums

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• Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.

  David Lyons

  Mean, Fighting, Boxing

  Source: collider.com

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• I never boxed until 17 and a half, I was in the Olympics at 19, and I was world champion when I was 20. I never watched a boxing match life in my life. The only boxer I had ever heard of was Muhammad Ali.

  Jeff Fenech

  Boxing, Champion, Half

  Source: fitefansho.blogspot.com

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• When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA.

  Jake Hecht

  Mma, Boxing, Guy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Nice, Princess, Unique

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