George Tahdooahnippah Quotes

Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.

George Tahdooahnippah

• Boxing
• Grew Up
• Wrestler

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• 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

• For me, it was very important to be part of a boxing film that actually explores the psychological aspects of the sport, more than just the physical aspects. I haven't seen boxing movies very often that really go so deep into the minds of the boxers. It really puts out how much it is about strategy and tactics and technique.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Important
  • Deep
  • Boxing

• 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

• 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

• There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Boxing

• I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Me
  • Working
  • Interest

• I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Think
  • Always
  • Boxing

• 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

• The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Trouble
  • Boxing
  • Sadness

• 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

• Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Life
  • Important
  • Movie

• Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'

  

  Peter Berg
  • Angry
  • Boxing

• The more you learn about the science of boxing, the more appreciation you have for man's ability to think and perform in violent situations, and that's what interests me in film.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Science
  • Boxing
  • Appreciation

• I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • World
  • Women
  • Done

• Any UFC fighter, and any fighter going into the boxing ring and can do what they do in the UFC, nine out of 10 won't be victorious and vice-versa, with a boxer coming from - even myself - coming over to that field will be a fish trying to be in a jungle and survive. It's not going to happen.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Trying
  • Boxing

• Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • People
  • Business
  • Football

• What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Death

• The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Risk
  • Cancer

• It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.

  

  Catherine McCormack
  • Friends
  • Afraid
  • Back

• I am an artist first and a photographer second.

  

  Andres Serrano

• Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Fighting
  • Artist
  • Victory

• Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But in my time, when I grew up in Lawton Oklahoma, we didn't have boxing. I was a wrestler.

  

  George Tahdooahnippah
  • Boxing
  • Grew Up
  • Wrestler