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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• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.

  

  Kirk Acevedo
  • Time
  • Work
  • Sports

• I think when people twitter 20 or 30 times per day, that's too much. They are boxing everyone else out, and people stop following them because they need a break.

  Biz Stone
  • People
  • Stop
  • Boxing

• Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it's the safest place they know.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Bad

• Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Alone
  • Football
  • Fighting

• Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.

  

  John Boyle O'Reilly
  • Country
  • Free
  • Boy

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

  

  Gene Tunney
  • Running
  • Basketball
  • Boxing

• I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Fair
  • Don't Think

• There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

  

  Euripides
  • World
  • Gods
  • Confusion

• Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.

  

  Genevieve Taggard
  • Singing
  • Right
  • Speech

• It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Long
  • Run

• 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