Boxing Quotes
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That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.
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When I was a kid, I did martial arts because boxing wasn't really available on Long Island. I think now kids are able to begin boxing earlier. So it's great and whatever can promote the sport on a whole is a good thing. And if we can do it on Long Island, where I am from, it's a beautiful thing.
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All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.
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Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
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I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'
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I suppose the "dilemma" might come up if I see a black athlete from the U.S. squaring off against a white Canadian athlete. Who do I want to identify with? I certainly will not and cannot say that race determines how I see competition. I'm certainly aware of how race plays into the way others see and portray competition some times, but I don't have to invest in it that way myself. Unless it's boxing.
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The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.
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Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.
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If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.
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I like to do things that are noncombat- or boxing-related. So I jump rope a lot, and then I run a lot.
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I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.
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America is the mecca of boxing, and they've had some great champions here. It's good to establish your skills and let people know what you're about in the States.
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I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.
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It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.
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To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.
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My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.
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I love yoga, pilates, boxing, spinning, and weight lifting and tend to do a mix of them all.
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Maybe I was great in the ring, but outside of boxing, I'm just a brother like other people. I want to live a good life, serve God, help everybody I can. And one more thing. I'm still gonna find out who stole my bike when I was 12 years old in Louisville and I'm gonna whup him. That was a good bike.
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This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.
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I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
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Boxing is one fight at a time for me. That's how I've always been, and that's how I was brought up.
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I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.
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Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.
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Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.
