Boxer Quotes
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I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.
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It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.
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I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. Thats what he'll be remembered for. But good boxing doesnt work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he'd come a cropper some day.
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The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
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You've got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I dont miss anything.
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Howard Cosell was gonna be a boxer when he was a kid only they couldn't find a mouthpiece big enough.
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I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.
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Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch.
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Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.
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Sometimes you know about a job four months in advance. Sometimes you know about a job four days in advance. It's all different, and my thing is just to try to stay prepared. It's like being a boxer. You never know when you're going to get your next fight, so you have to just stay in shape, mentally and physically and creatively.
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No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
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A boxer makes a comeback for two reasons: either he’s broke or he needs the money.
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Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an intellectual, some people no longer respect him as a fighter. With me it was always Lennox should react, not think. But thats nonsense. Only the guy who controls his opponent wins.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down... or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame "I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains.
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I don't want to be like any other boxer. My goal is to be a champion in my own style.
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I got into boxing for two reasons. One was that my father was a boxer. Secondly when I was young, all healthy men in the UK had to do two years "National Service" in one of the armed forces. I chose the Royal Air Force over the Army and Navy. My father's reputation went before me and therefore the RAF encouraged me to box. There is much rivalry in sporting competitions between the Army, Navy and RAF. Competing has great privileges. I didn't need too much encouragement with all these perks being offered, so I started training with a vengeance.
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I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.
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I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer.
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As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head.
