Boxing Quotes - Page 32

• I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty.

  Muhammad Ali

  Smart, Great Boxing

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• I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

  Steven Yeun

  Running, Yelling, Shapes

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

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• When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Cameras, Film, Rocky Iv

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I developed physically and mentally to take such a big step in my life and in my profession, which is boxing, knowing that it would have pros and cons, highs and lows in this sport that is so macho. I kept this hidden for many, many years.

  Orlando Cruz

  Sports, Years, Knowing

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• I've never had any intentions of taking a break (from boxing).

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Taking A Break, Fighter

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• It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.

  Sergio Martinez

  Hurt, Motivation, Champion

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• Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

  David Lyons

  Fighting, Dancing, Looks

  "David Lyons and Summer Glau Interview THE CAPE". Interview, collider.com. January 17, 2011.

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• All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

  Athol Fugard

  Finding Yourself, Shadow, Opponents

  "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.

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• Theres 3 things you need to remember in boxing, work hard, work harder, and work hardest

  Manny Pacquiao

  Hard Work, Needs, Remember

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• I run, but boxing conditioning is different, so you have to get used to running in the ring. Boxing movements are very different. Swimming is one of the best because every single muscle is working. I swim a lot. I train very hard at things that mimic boxing. I have to do mostly sport-specific training, such as lots of sparring.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Running, Swimming

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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, Mind

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• I've fought everybody without ducking anyone. I have beaten 10 undefeated guys, and I never was comparing myself to the greatest in the sport. I was not thinking of breaking any records. I'm just enjoying my time in boxing.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Sports, Thinking, Guy

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• My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Long, People, Goal

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• My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

  Frank Bruno

  Men, Guy, Boxers

  "Frank Bruno schools young boxers on Dereck Chisora and David Haye" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• Who Killed Davey Moore? Why and what's the reason for?

  Bob Dylan

  Reason

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• I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

  Randall Cobb

  Thinking, Hands, Abuse

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• A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Enemy

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• Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

  Mike Tyson

  Mouths, Rats, Plans

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• I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.

  Mike Tyson

  Kids, Fighting, Strive

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• I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Thinking, Two

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• I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

  Mike Tyson

  Sorry, Real, Purses

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• Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.

  Mike Tyson

  Winning, Broken, Forever

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• What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.

  Mike Tyson

  New York, Pockets, Would Be

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• I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Ems, Ends

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• There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.

  Mike Tyson

  Hurt, Want, Sake

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