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" A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. "
Sonny Liston
" A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups. "
Gael Garcia Bernal
" A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. "
Emo Philips
" All I want is to keep boxing for Great Britain and inspire others. "
Nicola Adams
" All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied. "
John Boyle O'Reilly
" All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him. "
Jack Dempsey
" A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things. "
Jonathan Ames
" Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed. "
Joe Rogan
" Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob called the shots. There are too many lawsuits and too few heroes. Absurd mismatches and fraudulent rankings by unaccountable offshore sanctioning bodies have disgusted fans. "
Tahl Raz
" An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself. "
Vijender Singh
" Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house. "
Sharon Horgan
" Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing. "
Tahl Raz
" As a general rule, Las Vegas sports books take boxing bets only on major fights.The same is true of most Internet gaming sites. Within that framework, not only does boxing allow participants to bet on their own bouts, it sometimes encourages them to do so. "
Thomas Hauser
" 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. "
Gene Tunney
" As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights. "
Miguel Cotto
" As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it. "
Budd Schulberg
" At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while. "
Juan Manuel Marquez
" Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. "
Georges Carpentier
" Auditioning is like boxing: It keeps me hungry and intense, whether I get the part or not. "
Mia Goth
" Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way. "
Barry McGuigan
" 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. "
J. R. Moehringer
" Before boxing, I was this angry kid ready to fight if someone said, 'Hello.' "
Peter Berg
" Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am. "
Mandy Bujold
" Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
" Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from. "
Gerry Cooney
" Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer. "
Irvine Welsh
" Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do. "
Billy Joe Saunders
" Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living. "
Edgar Ramirez
" Boxing is about hunger. "
Diego Luna
" 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
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