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Boxing has become America's tragic theater. -- Joyce Carol Oates
It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment. -- Jimmy Smits
Boxing is your father's sport. -- Dana White
Boxing is show-business with blood. -- David Belasco
Boxing is what pays my bills. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
That computer was made in Alabama -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing is just show business with blood. -- Frank Bruno
Boxing is not for killing each other. -- Manny Pacquiao
Boxing is drama on its grandest scale. -- Howard Cosell
I've always wanted to do a boxing movie. -- Walter Hill
Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Don't count the days, make the days count. -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey. -- George Carlin
Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance. -- Manny Pacquiao
Boxing won't retire me, I will retire from boxing. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing. -- Juan Manuel Marquez
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. -- Roger Kahn
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed -- Roger Kahn
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. -- Frank Bruno
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people. -- Joe Frazier
Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire. -- George Foreman
Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing, jiu-jitsu, scaling the Matterhorn... I did cardio before cardio was cool. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. -- Sam Simon
Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one. -- Irwin Winkler
Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless -- Bob Verdi
Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for. -- Andy Murray
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. -- Lennox Lewis
Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing. -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness. -- Mike Tyson
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. -- George Foreman
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century. -- Barry McGuigan
Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. -- Alexis Arguello
I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together. -- Don King
Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
For me, boxing isn't about hurting each other. Boxing is entertainment and making people happy. -- Manny Pacquiao
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess. -- Lennox Lewis
Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics. -- Gerry Cooney
Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious. -- Alan Minter
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. -- Muhammad Ali
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. -- Sugar Ray Robinson
Boxing's not a career for anyone: it doesn't last long enough to be a career. -- Chris Penn
Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to. -- Sylvester Stallone
It's hard to know what's gay in life. Boxing. That's two men fighting over a belt. -- Demetri Martin
Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other. -- Sylvester Stallone
Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure. -- Taylor Lautner
Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable. -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor. -- Seth Numrich
Boxing's all about getting the job done as quickly as possible, whether it takes 10 or 15 or 20 rounds. -- Frank Bruno
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost -- Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly. -- Holt McCallany
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves. -- John Barrymore
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do. -- Billy Joe Saunders
If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass. -- Randall "Tex" Cobb
I enjoy the school run and being a dad. Boxing will always be with me. I like that. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. -- Joyce Carol Oates
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. -- Jack Handey
I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot. -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter. -- Vitali Klitschko
Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind. -- Conor McGregor
I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor. -- Spencer Pratt
Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win. -- Kenny Anderson
Hopefully, some day I help some of this up-and-coming talent and promote them. Boxing is growing and is here to stay. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours? -- Alan Cooper
It's all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing. You blink your eyes and somebody says good night to you. -- Kostya Tszyu
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. -- Joe Frazier
Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do. -- Katie Taylor
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape. -- Diego Corrales
Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping -- Fred Mitchell
Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready. -- Adrien Broner
The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men. -- Joe Frazier
Boxing is really hard because you have to be in really good shape to have all those rules and just using your hands. -- Bonnie Canino
Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art -- Charles Bukowski
Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam -- Michael Spinks
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark. -- Muhammad Ali
Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming. -- Ray Mancini
Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch. -- Asif Kapadia
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks -- Omar Epps
Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy. -- George Foreman
Boxing's not that straightforward,â? said Eldric. "You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually. -- Franny Billingsley
Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting. -- Seth Numrich
Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it. -- Mike Tyson
Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six. -- Oscar De La Hoya
Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people. -- Manny Pacquiao
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others. -- Norman Mailer
People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going. -- Justin Trudeau
Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such. -- Dan Castellaneta
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it. -- Frank Bruno
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. -- F.X. Toole
Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
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. -- Dick Schaap
Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions. -- Sylvester Stallone
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. -- Ralph Wiley
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.' -- Mike Tyson
I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere? -- Allison Pearson
People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out. -- Morgan Freeman
Boxing is not brutal, it's an art - God has gifted me with incredible handspeed as a tool to be used - what else am I supposed to do but fight? There ain't no hand-racing competitions. -- Roy Jones Jr.
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us. -- Omar Epps
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. -- Budd Schulberg
Boxing changed my life. It's like a drug; you can't believe how great it is! Let me tell you something, you hit somebody on the chin, the guy goes down, the crowd roars...Wow! You really feel something! -- Tony Danza
The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers. -- Bernard Hopkins
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. -- Eddie Futch
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. -- Muhammad Ali
Boxing's an art, it's a science, and you don't go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to run into one of these bricks by mistake [looks at his fists], that's their fault. -- Roy Jones Jr.
Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem. -- Muhammad Ali
Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything. -- Michael Moorer
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. On the downside, you meet a lot of really bad people in boxing, at all stages of your career. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news. -- Muhammad Ali
Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best. -- Alexis Arguello

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