Boxing Quotes
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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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Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
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There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't achieve that in boxing, you're nothing.
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
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I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.
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Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove.
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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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In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.
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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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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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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
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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.
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Boxing is not for killing.
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There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.
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Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.
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Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'
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I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
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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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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
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Boxing is my true calling. I've found my purpose in life.
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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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Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.
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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!
