“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.” IfsWantNeedsBelieveSelfHardBigsAbleLastsSportsChanceQualityObjectsFootballTrainingMathematicsBoxingProportionFacultyLatinI Want YouContestsInspirational SportsAdequateAlways BelievePluckGo Hard Book:A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
“People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?” PeopleThinkingGivingBelievePersonsSaidGuySportsAnswersFootballDon't BelieveBoxingShyMmaBrutalCredible Author:Herschel Walker
“Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.” PlayGamesFieldsFootballPaperLettersBaseballNarrativeBoxingSooner Or LaterSheetsNotebookLinearHandball Author:J. R. Moehringer
“Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.” MenWarHandsPovertyModernFootballRacismDiedOneselfBoxingNobilityModern SocietyBarbaricPro Football Book:Serenity: A Boxing Memoir Source: Serenity: A Boxing Memoir
“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.” ThinkingShowsStreetsTelevisionFootballMy FavoriteAll TimeHillsBoxingMuhammadTelevision ShowsHill Street Blues Author:Lennie James
“I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.” BigsGivenChanceFansFootballSeriesTennisBoxingArdent Author:Vijender Singh
“The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.” WarGamesNamesMediaFootballFairsBaseballDebateAnalysisBoxingContestsAnalogiesTestosteroneFair Game Author:Jonathan Raymond
“Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.” FightingPracticeFootballOughtExerciseLowsAimNobleBoatBoxingPrizeFollowersJudgedAthleticDishonestyStand Alone Author:John Boyle O'Reilly
“I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.” ArtThreeRaceFootballBrotherGrewGrew UpBaseballHorseBoxingMartial ArtsBikeVolleyballRugbyThree Brothers Author:Barry Pepper
“I was hungry and I was looking for a way to better my life. With boxing, I didn't have to make a team. It wasn't like baseball or football. I could just walk in the gym and start doing something that I liked.” WayWalksTeamFootballBaseballHungryBoxingGym Author:Tavoris Cloud
“there's a lot of dangerous sports. You know, my opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that I'll give it to probably boxing. Then there's some other extreme sports out there, motocross where you're really risking your neck every time you go out there and do it.” KnowsGivingSportsOpinionDangerousFootballExtremesBoxingNecksExtreme SportsMotocrossDangerous Sports Author:Jon Jones
“Someone wanted me to write a profile for ESPN about the commissioner of baseball, and I said, "He's just some suit! Some Republican. No!" I mean if you want me to write about baseball, boxing or football, I'll write about those things because I watch them, I think about them a lot and I like them. But I don't want to write about Barry Bonds.” ThinkingWritingMeanFootballRepublicanBaseballBoxingWant MeProfileYou Want MeIf You Want Me Author:Richard Ford