Boxing Quotes
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My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.
Zach McGowan
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I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.
Mary Kom
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I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
Walter Hill
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There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.
George Foreman
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I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
Danny DeVito
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No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.
Tahl Raz
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My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.
Dominic Purcell
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold
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I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.
Edgar Ramirez
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.
Twyla Tharp
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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel
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I love playing for Ireland, and I love soccer, but when it comes down to it, I would choose boxing as my number one sport, as I'd miss it too much if I wasn't involved.
Katie Taylor
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I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
Barry McGuigan
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Boxing is what pays my bills.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.
Muhammad Ali
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Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I'm capable of achieving if I put my mind to it and how hard work can and will pay off in the end. It gave me confidence and taught me to face fear straight on and dig down deep when times get tough.
Mandy Bujold -
God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
Walter Hill
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I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.
Andrea Bocelli
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I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
Liam Neeson
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I'm not going to be boxing forever, but I've put no time-cap on it, really.
Katie Taylor
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
Adam Carolla
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
Barry McGuigan
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
Canelo Alvarez