#boxing

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali. ↗

— Dick Schaap

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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

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As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

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But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club. ↗

— Rod Taylor

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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor. ↗

— Walter Hill

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Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. ↗

— Joe Frazier

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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

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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. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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