Boxing Quotes
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Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.
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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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My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.
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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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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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I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
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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 just like boxing.
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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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Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.
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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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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'm the Godfather of Boxing. Everything is out in the open with me. What you see is what you get.
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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
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Boxing is not for killing.
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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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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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I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.
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Greb gave me a terrible whipping. My jaw was swollen from the right temple down the cheek, along the chin and part way up the other side. The referee, the ring itself, was full of my blood. If boxing was afflicted with the commission doctors that we have now, the first fight probably would have been stopped and no one would have heard of me today.
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I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.
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I'd always told people that I would have liked to pursue some sort of professional fight career. I don't know if I'm quite right for it, since I'm extremely prone to injury. I've been boxing for a couple years, and I've messed around with some Jiu-Jitsu, and I've always felt that there's such a passion in a real fighter's heart.
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What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.
