Boxing Quotes
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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.
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When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
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A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
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Without boxing, I can't live. I love boxing.
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Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other.
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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.
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In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.
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In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.
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Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.
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I do shadow boxing and use a heavy bag, but I don't spar with anyone.
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I love boxing and keep doing it because I love it.
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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.
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When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
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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.
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I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.
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The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
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Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.
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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.
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It's great to be boxing a local boxer. The atmosphere is always fantastic. I love those fights. I really relish those fights.
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Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to do with being in the Caribbean and with salsa. When you see a Panamanian boxer, there's a style. There's a playfulness in the way you throw the punches.
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I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.
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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.
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I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.
