#boxing

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

#bad guys #beat #boxing #boxing match #cowboy

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#easy #harder #life #much #real

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#boxer #boxing #higher #i #land

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#barney #big #boxing #bringing #interested

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

#about #accomplish #am #anything #boxing

That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. ↗

— David O. Russell

#attention #beautiful #beautiful thing #better #biggest

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#book #boxing #boxing-champion #drama #family

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches. ↗

— Don Roff

#outlines #writing #imagination

As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this? ↗

— Tony McMahon

#boxing #boxing-gloves #fight #fight-club #life

Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#boxing-matches #gambloes #life #moments #morningside