Boxing Quotes
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Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
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We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.
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Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'
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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.
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For an hour every day, I did something. I was on the elliptical or the treadmill, and if someone asked me to go to a class - whether it was spinning, boxing, yoga, you name it - I went. By the end of the month, I felt so good, I just kept going. I didn't want to lose my momentum.
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Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.
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I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working.
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Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
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Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
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Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.
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Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.
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I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
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Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.
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All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.
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Boxing is an addiction and I can’t get enough of it.
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After 14 years in boxing, the best decision I could have made was to take the last year off. My mind was not in boxing, but since I got here with Freddie, everything is working perfectly again. Boxing is all I know. Boxing is my life. Through boxing, I raised my family and I work to provide the best future for them. They are the reason I love boxing.
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People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
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It's only boxing, don't worry about it. Let's get it on!
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I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.
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Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.
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I go to practice every day. I really don't have a training camp. In the boxing world, and that's where that came from, almost every time a guy would get out of the ring and he wouldn't break a sweat again until he went to his next training camp. He would do absolutely nothing until he started training for the next fight.
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Count 10 over him - he'll get up
