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Boxing Quotes
"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."
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"See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it."
45
"Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly."
13
"But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club."
12
"Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct."
10
"In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators."
10
"Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world."
10
"Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today."
10
"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won."
9
"I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out."
9
"I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me."
9
"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."
9
"New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something."
8
"As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one."
8
"The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport."
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"The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."
7
"When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves."
7
"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."
7
"Sure, there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
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"Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume."
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"The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption."
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"Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months."
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