Boxing Quotes - Page 6

• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  Omar Epps

  Sports, Fighting, Thinking

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• That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

  David O. Russell

  Beautiful, Sports, Spiritual

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• When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

  Bob Seger

  Relationship, Wedding, Together

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• We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

  Drew Bundini Brown

  Butterfly, Men, Bees

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• It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.

  Angelo Dundee

  Forever, Muhammad, Spoiled

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• The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

  Howard Cosell

  Goodbye, Thinking, May

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• I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighting, Legacy, Checks

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• Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighter, Skid Row, Wells

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• Got any excuses tonight Roy?

  Antonio Tarver

  Tonight, Excuse

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• I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

  Jake LaMotta

  Rays, Lucky, Sugar

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• I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.

  Mark Kaylor

  Fighting, Christie

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• I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.

  Jim Watt

  Bottles, Gloves, Milk

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• How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!

  Lennox Lewis

  Men, Minutes, Sentences

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• In all my years in boxing I'd never known such heat

  Angelo Dundee

  Years, Heat, Dundee

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• Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Heart, Cassius

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2011

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• Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

  Cus D'Amato

  Smart, Mean, Target

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• I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour.

  Lionel Rose

  Sports, Winning, Differences

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• If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am. I live it.

  Marvin Hagler

  Cutting, Gloves, Bigs

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• I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cocky, Greatness, Names

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

  Muhammad Ali

  Quarrels, Great Boxing, Viet Cong

  Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali (1996). “Muhammad Ali in perspective”, Harpercollins

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• I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character.

  Lennox Lewis

  Character, Cartoon, Sound

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• Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

  Joe Frazier

  Funny, Sports, Money

  "Underdog Boxing: Pumped up for the Pacquiao-Mosley undercard fights" by Carlo L.Pamintuan, www.gmanetwork.com. February 10, 2011.

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• Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Sports, Challenges

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 17, 2015

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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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• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  Olivier Martinez

  Stars, Years, Car

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

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