Alan Minter Quotes

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

Alan Minter

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• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Win

• Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Racism
  • Boxing
  • Still

• One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing, and being the youngest sibling, I wanted to do what he did, so I pushed my parents to let me join.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Parents
  • Year
  • Boxing

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • Art
  • Moment

• 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
  • Man
  • Beginning
  • Sports

• In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Star

• I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Process
  • Plan
  • Medicine

• Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Worst
  • Boxing

• Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Boxing
  • Big
  • Then

• I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Past
  • Training
  • Injuries

• One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Life
  • Time
  • Brother

• Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Boxing

• In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Boxing

• There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • Up
  • Boxing

• Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Boxing

• Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'

  

  Nicola Adams
  • Boxing
  • Thoughtful
  • Technical

• There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • America
  • Political
  • Past

• Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight.

  

  James Rosenquist

• I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • Nature
  • Brain

• Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.

  

  Nicola Salvi
  • Water
  • Being
  • Source

• Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

  

  Alan Minter
  • Boxing
  • Injuries
  • Deaths