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“My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.”

Order Sports My Own Ambition Speed Defense Rings Boxing Mike Skillful

Author:Gene Tunney

“Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.”

Black Boxing Beaten Clay Scourge Cassius Cassius Clay

Author:Floyd Patterson

“Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.”

World Sports Forget This World Boxing

Author:Oscar De La Hoya

“All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.”

Done Moving Fighting Sports Team Management Safety Excited Fighter Boxing Safety Net

Author:Gerry Cooney

“Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.”

Sports Dues Boxing

Author:Gerry Cooney

“The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.”

Ends Trouble Sadness Boxing

Author:Barry McGuigan

“Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.”

Century Training Method Boxing 21st Century

Author:Barry McGuigan

“I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.”

People Thinking Want Able Together Sound Steps Boxing Obnoxious

Author:Barry McGuigan

“Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.”

Love Kind Made Happens Wanted Guy Levels Laughing Hated Boxing Muhammad

Author:Gerry Cooney

“The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you”

Fighting Differences Streets Killing Boxing Stopping Refs

Author:Marvin Hagler

“I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.”

Two Used Fighting Parent Baby Grieving Boxing Corpses Gloves Boxing Gloves

Author:Zach Braff

“Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.”

Thinking Needs Two Play Fighting Three Differences Steps Smart Strategy Chess Experts Opponents Boxing Doing You Being Smart

Author:Vitali Klitschko

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”

“All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.”

Thinking Funny Boxing Hitting Great Boxing Boxing Champions Boxing Motivational

Author:Jack Dempsey

“I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.”

Thinking Has Beens Done Jobs Kings Balance Good Things Very Good Boxing Promoting

Author:Dick Schaap

“I think Mike Gibbons was probably the greatest boxer that ever put a glove on. They called him The Wizard, The Phantom of the ring and he was that. I boxed with Mike about ten years and I never really hit him a hard punch during the time. Repeating again, Mike was one of the great boxers of the age.”

Thinking Years Hard Age Ten Rings Boxing Mike Wizards Gloves Phantoms Boxers

Author:Tommy Gibbons

“Dempsey could beat anybody he could hit. The only reason that he couldn't do anything with fellows like Tunney or Greb or myself was he couldn't hit us.”

Reason Beats Fellows Boxing

Author:Tommy Gibbons

“No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.”

Matter Color No Matter What Titles Champion Boxing Genes Retired Nationality Heavyweights

Author:Tommy Gibbons

“When I was growing up, there was always somebody who wanted to pick a fight with me. I'd say, I'm not a famous boxer, my father is. If you want to fight somebody, go fight my Dad.”

Ifs Want Wanted Fighting Father Growing Up Growing Dad Picks My Dad Boxing Boxers Famous Boxer

Author:Richard Gibbons

“Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.”

Matter Women Pressure Privilege Boxing Badass Great Boxing Finding Out The Truth Boxing Ring

Author:Billie Jean King

“It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.”

Kind Two Character Sports Cases Hero Horse Boxing Racing Ironic Decline Suitable Aggravation Horse Racing

Author:Dick Schaap

“I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.”

Boxing Fades Dumb Celebrity

Author:Mike Tyson

“Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.”

Sports Common Strategy Chess Rely Boxing

Author:Vitali Klitschko

“I think boxing is an incredible sport and I would like to see it really become regulated because I think it could bring back a lot of the past.”

Thinking Past Sports Incredibles Boxing

Author:Dom Irrera

“In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them.”

Writing Art Artist Sports Succeed Authority Tasks Originals Statements Fighter Boxing Addresses Daring Sociology Aesthetics Art History Groundwork Daunting Tasks

Author:Robert Anasi

“Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Littles Body Games Sports Chess Compare Boxing Bloody Mind And Body Alleys Chess Game

Author:Budd Schulberg

“If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.”

Ifs Fall Feet Stupid Succeed Drunk Fighter Boxing Falling Down Bros Warner Bros

Author:Frank Darabont

“MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.”

World Life Is Regret Champion Boxing Heavyweights Boxing Champions Life Regret

Author:Nelson Mandela

“People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.”

People Hurt Affair Boxing Love Affair Love Hurt Boxing Matches

Author:George Foreman

“Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.”

Sports Nice Pure Essence Tennis Boxing Neat

Author:Andy Murray

“Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.”

Thinking Knows Feels Made Soul Bigs Week Fit Rings Boxing Fascinating Ritual Cheese Humiliation Clumsy Chaps Swank

Author:Hugh Laurie

“During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.”

Littles Real Careers Saws Boxing Retired Muhammad Showmanship

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.”

Thinking Men Stills Seems Fighting Enjoy Boxing Another Man Barbaric

Author:Sugar Ray Robinson

“Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.”

Mean Values Smart Boxing Bombs Target Relative Mike Atomic Bomb Tyson Conveying

Author:Cus D'Amato

“Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability, but you also see a big difference in their skills. That's the trainers influence at work.”

Bigs Science Sports Born Differences Ability Walks Influence Skills Fighter African American Boxing Gym Trainers Punching Skills Development Physical Ability

Author:Eddie Futch

“I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.”

People Ifs Fighting Felt Coaches Boxing If I Could Camps Bullied Boxing Ring

Author:Liam Payne

“It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.”

Together Succeed I Realized Boxing

Author:Muhammad Ali

“You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.”

Hard Guy Hurt Perfect Careers Periods Focused Boxing Distracted Stay Focused Great Boxing

Author:Gerry Cooney

“It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.”

Motivation Hurt Fighter Boxing

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find myself like others, having the heart of a Steiglitz with hands that sometimes seem impeded by boxing gloves. What is exasperating is that one can feel closer to managing the skills of photography than most other arts, and yet be a long hop, skip and delusional way from it.”

Way Feels Heart Long Art Sometimes Hands Seems Skills Photography Distance Photograph Boxing Hops Followers Respectful Gloves Skip Delusional Layman Enticing Boxing Gloves

Author:Norman Corwin

“Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.”

Guy Three Fighter Boxing Motivational Sports Duran Duran

Author:Roberto Duran

“One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'”

Looks Said Motivation Guy Fear Born Records Saws My Friends Criminals Fighter Boxing Loser This Guy Mike Other Guys Intimidation Juvenile Mental Strength Troublemaker

Author:Mike Tyson

“I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.”

Wells Kind I Can Motivation Fear Successful Quitting Fighter Boxing Being Successful Intimidation Mental Strength

Author:Mike Tyson

“I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.”

Needs Years Motivation Fighting Exciting Fighter Boxing

Author:Joe Calzaghe

“Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.”

Ifs Should Firsts Home Motivational Motivation Fans Easier Fighter Boxing Receiving Elsewhere Popularity Boxers

Author:Roy Jones Jr.

“I hope that not one of them ever wanna even think about boxing.”

Thinking Motivation Fighter Boxing

Author:Roy Jones Jr.

“If you go to Madison Square Garden, you better have your A game ready, because here goes the thing, they love boxing. They either like you, or they don't like you. They're either cheering for you, or they're cheering for you to die...They want you to kill, or be killed.”

Ifs Want Motivation Dies Games Ready Like You Garden Fighter Boxing Cheer Squares Madison Madison Square Garden

Author:Roy Jones Jr.

“There's one thing I remember about Muhammad Ali. He said "I don't like my condition, but if this is what the Good Lord has planned for me to deal with, I'm happy with that." You have to understand, that comes from my idol, one of the guys that got me started in boxing.”

Ifs Said Remember Motivation Guy Deals Lord One Thing Conditions Fighter Boxing Idols Muhammad

Author:Roy Jones Jr.

“I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.”

School Motivation Fighter Boxing Old School

Author:James Toney

“After I knock out Randy Couture, I'll fight for the heavyweight title, the real heavyweight boxing title in October or November, come back and fight in the UFC in January or February. It doesn't matter, I'm a two sport athlete. The oldest man to ever do that.”

Men Two Real Matter Motivation Fighting Sports Athlete Fighter Titles Boxing October November January February Ufc Heavyweights Couture Randy

Author:James Toney

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