Boxing Quotes - Page 23

• When I entered the sport of boxing I wanted to be one of the best and be undefeated. And I was able to attain that, not just one championship title, but four.

  Laila Ali

  Sports, Championship, Undefeated

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Strong, Sleep, Skills

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• Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

  Jay-Z

  Perfect, Hip Hop, Hips

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.86, Random House Group

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• What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Devil, World, Fists

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.272, Macmillan

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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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• That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. If you opened the door even a centimeter, you would smell the rot outside and hear the screams. You did not open the door. You kept your mind on the tasks of the day, the hunt for food and water and something to burn, and you saved the rest for the end of the war.

  David Benioff

  War, Eye, Men

  David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Airports, Filled Out, Knives

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Dad, Blue, Corners

  Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Fighting, Thinking, Benefits

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it.

  Lee Child

  Crush, Dream, Wall

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.508, Delacorte Press

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• Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Mouths, Sometimes, Power Of One

  Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.

  George Johnson

  Science, Hands, Trying

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• If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

  Muhammad Ali

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2016

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• Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  Cus D'Amato

  Running, Motivational Sports, Attitude

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• What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Hate, Home

  "MUHAMMAD ALI DEFENDS HIS RELIGION Says Islam is for peace" by Lisa L. Colangelo, Clem Richardson, www.nydailynews.com. September 21, 2001.

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• To become a champion, fight one more round.

  James Corbitt

  Motivational, Sports, Determination

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• Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational Life, Get Better, Trying

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• I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

  Maxim Kuznetsov

  Fighting, Hockey, Years

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• The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Retirement, Insightful

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• His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

  Joe Frazier

  Sports, Winning, Hands

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• The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Greatness, Drug

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• Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Fighting, Hands

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• I'm not God, but I am something similar.

  Roberto Duran

  Sports, Fighter, Duran Duran

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• I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.

  Muhammad Ali

  Golf, Havens, Funny Golf

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2012

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