Boxing Quotes
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Boxed Quotes
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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there`s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other
Jack Handy
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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
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The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Bob Verdi
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Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.
Bob Verdi
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
Joyce Carol Oates
Subject: Boxing QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn
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Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn
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Boxing has become America`s tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali
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I suddenly got obsessive about boxing and Muhammad Ali around the time he was fighting Joe Frazier. I went off and did boxing. I looked incredibly good in the gym.
Gary Oldman
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I suddenly got obsessive about boxing and Muhammad Ali around the time he was fighting Joe Frazier. I went off and did boxing. I looked incredibly good in the gym.
Gary Oldman
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I liked the Million Dollar Baby (2004)` script a lot. Warner Bros. said the project had been submitted to them and they`d passed on it. I said, "But I like it." They said, "Well, it`s a boxing movie." And I said, "It`s not a boxing movie in my opinion. It...
Clint Eastwood
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I liked the Million Dollar Baby (2004)` script a lot. Warner Bros. said the project had been submitted to them and they`d passed on it. I said, "But I like it." They said, "Well, it`s a boxing movie." And I said, "It`s not a boxing movie in my opinion. It...
Clint Eastwood
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I am an astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey were just jet pilots. I`m in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali
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[On Raging Bull (1980)]: "[Robert De Niro] wanted to make this film. Not me. I don`t understand anything about boxing. For me, it`s like a physical game of chess."
Martin Scorsese
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I ran into a couple of guys who were boxers. They talked me into working out at their gym. I became obsessed with boxing and the idea of becoming a champion. I was hoping to compete in the 1992 Olympics...But I got a lead [acting]. Suddenly I was making m...
Jon Seda
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[On his job as a boxing gym sparring partner]: I always had to fight the guys who looked like they just killed their parents.
Richard Pryor
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[On being promoted from a $50/day extra to a $350/day boxing coach:] "How bad do you want this kid beat up?"
Danny Trejo
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[on picking up his new hobby] Boxing is fascinating. It`s good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I`m a big cheese, but you don`t feel like that when you`re in the ring with a chap who knows what he`s doing. It...
Hugh Laurie
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I love the idea of the man to man, against one another. I like that. I don`t know why. - On why he loves the sport of boxing.
Wesley Snipes
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At my utopian film academy I would have students do athletic things with real physical contact, like boxing, something that would teach them to be unafraid. I would have a loft with a lot of space where in one corner there would be a boxing ring. Students...
Werner Herzog
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At my utopian film academy I would have students do athletic things with real physical contact, like boxing, something that would teach them to be unafraid. I would have a loft with a lot of space where in one corner there would be a boxing ring. Students...
Werner Herzog
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The only person who has the right attitude about boxing in the movies for me was Buster Keaton.
Martin Scorsese
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At one point I was doing theater in San Francisco and actually living in the theater. I was broke. I was boxing - working out in a gym - and this trainer got me into the union. He started putting all the guys in his stable into the union. So I started mak...
Fred Ward
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If you`re going to succeed, you`ve got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet. --Premiere, October 1994
Frank Darabont
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People accept Rocky Balboa as authentic. I can`t tell you how many people have come up to me and asked about my boxing career. It`s like they really want to believe that Rocky exists. You know, I`m amazed by all of this. At one time I thought people would...
Sylvester Stallone
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(on learning to box for The Boxer (1997)) I wanted to see if I loved the sport, because if I didn`t love the sport, I wouldn`t want to tell the story. At its best, boxing is very pure. It requires resilience and heart and self-belief even after it`s been ...
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I love boxing. There`s something fierce about using your body`s force that way.
Sophia Bush
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At the beginning, it`s not like I didn`t like boxing. I just didn`t think about boxing, I didn`t even really have an opinion about it. And when I heard about it, I just thought, `What is the thing about hitting someone and wanting to get hit?` The whole t...
Hilary Swank
