Boxing Quotes - Page 7

• Boxing is just show business with blood.

  Frank Bruno

  Blood, Shows, Show Business

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• Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

  Georges Carpentier

  Art, Half, Boxing Champions

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• Boxing is show-business with blood.

  David Belasco

  Blood, Shows, Show Business

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

  Budd Schulberg

  Hate, Boxing Champions, I Hate

  Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.241, Open Road Media

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• For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Blood, Soul

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• We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Past, Lasts

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Motivational, Athlete, Things In Life

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

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• I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

  Leon Spinks

  Blame, Wanted, Ifs

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• I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Hurt, Thinking

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

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• I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

  Alexis Arguello

  Motivation, Memorable, Dedication

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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, Dancing, Easier

  "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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• My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Ambition, Order

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• The man who has no imagination has no wings.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2010

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• I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'

  George Foreman

  Funny, Yeah, Said

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• I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

  Muhammad Ali

  People, Wish, Would Be

  Twitter post from Dec 11, 2010

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• Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

  Roger Kahn

  Kidneys, Halls, Battered

  Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

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• You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Motivational, Thinking, Gone

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• Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

  Evander Holyfield

  Sports, Giving Up, Fighting

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

  Muhammad Ali

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2011

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• Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

  Roberto Duran

  Motivational Sports, Guy, Three

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• I shook up the world.

  Muhammad Ali

  World, Action

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2012

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• It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Sports, Volleyball

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• When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

  Jack Dempsey

  Motivational, Sports, Food

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• Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

  Howard Cosell

  Sports, Simple, Men

  Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books

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• I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

  Rocky Graziano

  Funny, Sports, School

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