“Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.” PeopleWorldGuySportsAirMissingCitizensTrainFighterDecentBoxingCapabilityHandfulRespectableTrainersDecent Guys Author:Alexis Arguello
“Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.” IfsWayWantLanguageSportsAbilityCrazyDangerousSeriousWeaponsAncientHarmViolentFighterCivilizedRomeFistsSymbolicGlovesAncient RomeAccentuateThrowback Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.” PeopleMindWellsSometimesSportsLosesGoes OnPressureInsaneFighterBoxingBottlesMake OutSkid Row Author:Mike Tyson
“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).” PlayMightBeautifulSportsLevelsOpinionTeamBasketballWeightFighterDamageTennisBoxingDivisionIntensitySubmitBrutalMetaphysicalAbstractionPrimalLightersReally BeautifulSports TeamFormalityPhysical Beauty Author:David Foster Wallace
“Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.” KnowsMeanArtSportsAttentionStudySacrificeYeahDevotionFighterPay AttentionDedicated Author:Marvin Hagler
“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.” WorldWantWellsMadeHardOrderSportsFocusMediaFighterBoxingGreat BoxingBoxing ChampionsLack Of Respect Author:Marvin Hagler
“To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.” MindMadeHardSportsSuccessfulReadyTrainingWeightHeavyLifestyleFighterLive LifeChampionBeing SuccessfulDaily LifeGood FightHeavyweightsHeavy Weights Author:Mike Tyson
“I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get into the ring for real, even the worst heavyweight in the world is going to murder you. You've just got to appreciate the pain and the suffering and the glory and skill that goes into what they do. That's why I love the sport so much.” PeopleWorldRealPainSufferingSportsOne ThingWorstSkillsGloryAppreciateMurderRingsFighterBoxingHeavyweights Author:Sylvester Stallone