Boxing Quotes - Page 30

• I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Fighting, Grieving

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• Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Smart, Fighting, Thinking

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• Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

  Hans Kmoch

  Training, Shadow, Important

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• I think Mike Gibbons was probably the greatest boxer that ever put a glove on. They called him The Wizard, The Phantom of the ring and he was that. I boxed with Mike about ten years and I never really hit him a hard punch during the time. Repeating again, Mike was one of the great boxers of the age.

  Tommy Gibbons

  Thinking, Years, Age

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• Dempsey could beat anybody he could hit. The only reason that he couldn't do anything with fellows like Tunney or Greb or myself was he couldn't hit us.

  Tommy Gibbons

  Reason, Beats, Fellows

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• No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

  Tommy Gibbons

  Color, Heavyweights, Champion

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• When I was growing up, there was always somebody who wanted to pick a fight with me. I'd say, I'm not a famous boxer, my father is. If you want to fight somebody, go fight my Dad.

  Richard Gibbons

  Dad, Growing Up, Father

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• Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

  Billie Jean King

  Badass, Women, Matter

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• I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

  Mike Tyson

  Dumb Celebrity, Fades

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

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• Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Sports, Chess, Common

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• I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back a lot of the past.

  Dom Irrera

  Sports, Past, Thinking

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• In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them.

  Robert Anasi

  Sports, Art, Writing

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• Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

  Budd Schulberg

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

  Frank Darabont

  Stupid, Fall, Feet

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

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• MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Regret, Champion, Heavyweights

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• Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.

  Andy Murray

  Sports, Nice, Essence

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

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• During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, Careers, Littles

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jun 11, 2014

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• Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Together, Succeed, I Realized

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Jun 27, 2014

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• It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Hurt, Motivation, Fighter

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• Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.

  Norman Corwin

  Photography, Art, Distance

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• One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'

  Mike Tyson

  Fear, Motivation, Guy

  "Tyson: 'My Whole Life Has Been a Waste'". usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 02, 2005.

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• I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Successful

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• I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Fighting, Years

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• I hope that not one of them ever wanna even think about boxing.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Thinking, Fighter

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