Boxing Quotes
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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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Oh, my gosh! Can you imagine learning boxing from Sylvester Stallone's character? I would die!
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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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A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But thats complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that youve still got it, that its still getting better.
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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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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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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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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
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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.
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The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.
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He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
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While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.
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I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.
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The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.
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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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My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.
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Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.
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The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.
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Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling.
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I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.
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He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
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I could have 10 kids or be boxing until I'm 40.
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Sorry dude, but we're in a boxing match and you went against your word and tried to make me look weak and stupid in front of 17 million people. That's just not gonna happen.
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Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.
