Boxing Quotes
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At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.
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Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
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I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then.
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I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.
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I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.
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As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
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As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.
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Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.
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When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
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I had a personal trainer twice a week and he was wicked - he made me do circuit training and boxing - by the end of the third circuit, I'd be swearing and ready to punch his face in!
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I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd Mayweather never drinks - and he is the blueprint for boxing.
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Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
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UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.
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Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.
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People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the Elvis of boxing.
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I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
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I just like boxing.
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I'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.
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I think guys that play basketball really understand how to go up and get a ball. Because in a rebound situation, you've got to go up and fight for a ball. Just boxing out. There are a lot of things that transfer.
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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Boxing is not for killing.
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Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.
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Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff.
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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
