Boxing Quotes
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I wasn't instructed to do any special training for 'Hawkgirl,' but I had started boxing a few weeks prior and stuck with that for several months leading up to the start of production.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
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Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
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Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.
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Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.
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Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.
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Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
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When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
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Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling... All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team -or our society -could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice themselves.
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Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
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It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
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Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
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It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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Growing up with my brothers all boxing has stood me in good stead for nights like these. You should have seen some the fights we used to have in our front room.
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You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
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Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.'
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All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.
