Boxing Quotes - Page 9

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  I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2011

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• All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.

  Willie Pep

  Divorce, Wife, House

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• The beauty about boxing fights is that they offer lots of opportunity to really learn something about yourself and your opponent.

  Jean Pascal

  Fighting, Opportunity, About Yourself

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Sports, Moving, Heart

  "Sugar Ray" by Sugar Ray Robinson and Dave Anderson, (p. 75), March 22, 1994.

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• I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Sports, Canvas

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• The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

  Thomas Hearns

  Sports, Loss, Winning

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• To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

  Cus D'Amato

  Sports, Men, Tragedy

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• When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

  Muhammad Ali

  Peace, Men, World

  Twitter post from Jun 10, 2011

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• He can run, but he can't hide.

  Joe Louis

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 June 1946.

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• I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, He Man, Meanness

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• I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

  Chuck Wepner

  Marine, Ifs, Survived

  "Chuck Wepner". ipfs.io.

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• The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

  Twyla Tharp

  Sports, Baseball, Play

  "After 12 Years in 'Exile' Tharp Shifts Gears Again; A Pioneer of Choreographic Collisions Introduces a New Troupe and New Thinking" by Anna Kisselgoff, www.nytimes.com. July 6, 2000.

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• I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.

  Kelly Rowland

  Long, Teach, Could Have Been

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• I never compare myself to anybody. I don't look at my accomplishments compared to anyone. I'm happy with what I've accomplished in boxing.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Accomplishment, Looks, Compare

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• Most people would think that I don't like Floyd Mayweather, but I like Floyd. He understood on how to keep winning, I don't care what anyone says, he kept the passion in his boxing and in his training to win. A lot of people lose that. They get the money and they don't want to train and Mayweather trained the same as when he had no money and persisted to win.

  Ann Wolfe

  Passion, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Boxing is a business. I have been in the professional game for five years now - I'm not doing it for nothing. I am doing it so I can provide for my future family, so I can have a future. I am here to make money. And at the same time I'm the most exciting fighter in Britain, if not the world, in my opinion. I don't know anybody else in the game that does the things I do in the ring.

  Chris Eubank, Jr.

  World, Opinion, Fighter

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in ‘88. Only then was I ready to turn professional.

  Lennox Lewis

  People, Gold, Making Money

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better.

  Lennox Lewis

  People, Get Better, Quitting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Once, I was at a party...This was at a time when it seemed like I had everything. I was young. I was undefeated. I had money. I`d just moved into my own home. People at the party were laughing and having fun. And I missed my mother. I felt so lonely. I remember asking myself, `Why isn`t my mother here? Why are all these people around me? I don`t want these people around me.' I looked out the window and started crying.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Mother, Lonely, Fun

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• New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

  John Cusack

  Movie, New York, Hollywood

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• People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

  Morgan Freeman

  Movie, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 13, 2004.

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• Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

  Gene Tunney

  Basketball, Sports, Running

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• In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

  Joseph Barbera

  Romantic, Fighting, Radio

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

  Gerry Cooney

  Love, Laughing, Guy

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

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• I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

  Dick Schaap

  Kings, Jobs, Thinking

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