#boxing

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption. ↗

— Al Sharpton

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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. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

#any #boxing #chess #chess game #different

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#bleed #boxing #could #down #eight

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

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You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

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Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#generally #him #love #might #mike

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize ↗

— Mohammed Ali

#confidence #victory #dreams

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations. ↗

— Peter Berg

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I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

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I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches. ↗

— George Foreman

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