#boxing

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#all things #bit #boxing #chi #current

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

#accident #after #back #bad #boxing

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

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#before #boxing #could #gloves #gyms

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.' ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#first #get #grandmother #her #i

I always put my boxing first. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#boxing #first #i #i always #put

I knew boxing before I knew anything else. ↗