Boxing Quotes
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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 -
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.
Ciara Renee
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Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
LeRoy Neiman -
It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.
Canelo Alvarez -
The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.
Joe Frazier -
The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
Barry McGuigan -
My goal in boxing is to be the best.
Canelo Alvarez -
Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, Pilates, or something that'll stretch you out and make you longer. I'm not the person that loves to be in the gym so much. I like to mix it up as much as possible; otherwise, I'll get bored.
Elsa Hosk
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You're clearing your mind during a workout. Boxing is a great sport for girls; it's really safe.
Katie Taylor -
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
Billy Joe Saunders -
Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.
John Boyle O'Reilly -
I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental.
Adriana Lima -
I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.
Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child -
I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.
Alexis Arguello
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I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.
Anthony Joshua -
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
David Bailey -
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.
Emanuel Steward -
There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
Marvin Hagler -
I like boxing.
Marion Barry -
Boxing is a lonely sport.
Andre Ward
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And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
Alicia Keys -
There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through.
Billy Joe Saunders -
You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It's a competitive sport. Rappin' is the closest thing to boxing. Jay-Z said that. You gotta fight every day.
Astro -
I have always been English, ever since I emigrated from England and since the kids in Canada beat me up at the age of twelve for having an East London Cockney accent. I thank them for the cockney taunts because the beatings turned me on to boxing. But on a serious note Canada has been kind to me.
Lennox Lewis