Boxing Quotes
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Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.
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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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The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.
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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 my true calling. I've found my purpose in life.
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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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I have so many things that I want to do with my life. I just don't see myself being a fighter forever. Boxing is my love and passion. It also opens up and sets up other things in my life as well.
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A great champion needs a background in amateur boxing, I'm convinced of that. There you learn everything that youll need later as a pro. Someone whos got more than 400 amateur fights behind him no longer gets nervous before going into the ring and doesnt lose his nerve during a fight. You know all the boxing styles, youre prepared for anything, youve got the pedigree that you need to be a successful pro.
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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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Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.
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Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist.
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Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
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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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New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.
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There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.
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One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.
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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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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost quit amateur boxing, but my faith in God had a lot to do with me slowly getting my life together.
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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
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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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They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.
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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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Wack job in the back with a black stocking cap/Jacking off to a hockey mask in a boxing match
