#boxing

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.... ↗

— Andre Agassi

#loneliness #opponents #solitary-confinement #tennis #men

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. ↗

— Frank Bruno

#toughest #world

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

#boxing #gloves #got #i #person

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things. ↗

— Danny DeVito

#between #boxing #couple #developed #happen

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#been #blow #boxing #dodging #fooling

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#boxing #breathing #jumping #me #much

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid. ↗

— Robert Goulet

#boxing #ever #fan #i #kid

I like boxing. ↗

— Marion Barry

#i #like

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing. ↗