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To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.

Quotes by Charlie Pierce

Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

Quotes by Vijender Singh

I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

Quotes by Vijender Singh

My legacy is to put my name in the history books in boxing.

Quotes by Vasyl Lomachenko

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

Quotes by Vasyl Lomachenko

Boxing is the only thing I have ever understood - I certainly don't understand women.

Quotes by Tony Bellew

When I go into a boxing ring, I'm willing to die.

Quotes by Tony Bellew

Boxing is allowed to exist as an exception to state laws against violence on the premise that it will be regulated in a manner that protects the combatants physically and financially.

Quotes by Thomas Hauser

Most major sports benefit from the fact that betting by the general public fuels fan interest and boosts television ratings. The Super Bowl and 'March Madness' are prime examples. But sports other than boxing draw a clear line where betting by participants is concerned.

Quotes by Thomas Hauser

In boxing, everybody has their favorites.

Quotes by Thomas Hearns

Boxing is insane and, in my opinion, should be banned.

Quotes by Thelma Schoonmaker

Boxing was not as big as wrestling in Japan, but people knew Leon Spinks.

Quotes by Terry Funk

No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.

Quotes by Tahl Raz

I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

Quotes by T. J. Thyne

I'm a huge boxing and mixed martial arts fan.

Quotes by Sung Hi Lee

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

Quotes by Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

Quotes by Sugar Ray Leonard

I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.

Quotes by Sugar Ray Leonard

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Quotes by Sugar Ray Leonard

I took up boxing to get in shape for filming because it's grueling - all the running, the heat, the yelling, the crying that we do.

Quotes by Steven Yeun

I like running, and I like boxing.

Quotes by Stephanie Sigman

I'd love to be in a real boxing match, but I can't because of my face. I'm an actor!

Quotes by Stephanie Sigman

I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future.

Quotes by Shayne Ward

The only thing I'm good at is boxing.

Quotes by Shannon Briggs

Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor.

Quotes by Seth Numrich

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

Quotes by Sean Patrick Flanery

I think the MMA and boxing are different audiences. I think it's a different intrigue. There's no reason you can't be a fan of both; why does it have to be one or the other?

Quotes by Scott Coker

Oh, sure, I love boxing.

Quotes by Scatman Crothers

I'm absolutely obsessed with boxing.

Quotes by Sandi Toksvig

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

Quotes by Sam Simon

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Quotes by Roger Kahn

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

Quotes by Rod Taylor

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

Quotes by Robert Goulet

I'm a boxing fan.

Quotes by Robert Downey Sr.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan, would sit through the night watching boxing matches and would hit the bag at every opportunity I would get.

Quotes by Robbie Lawler

I was always into martial arts and boxing.

Quotes by Robbie Lawler

Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure.

Quotes by Peter Berg

Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.

Quotes by Pete Hamill

UFC has unbelievable fans, and boxing has unbelievable fans.

Quotes by Paulie Malignaggi

They put everything that's wrong with boxing in one room, did everything that's wrong with boxing in that room, and gave birth to Adrien Broner.

Quotes by Paulie Malignaggi

If it amuses you to hit people, you do boxing - you do taekwondo - whatever you want. But you don't play football.

Quotes by Patrice Evra

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

Quotes by Oscar De La Hoya

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

Quotes by Omar Epps

Boxing, for me, is all about drama and victory, and there is plenty more to come.

Quotes by Oleksandr Usyk

I like Britain because that is where boxing was born.

Quotes by Oleksandr Usyk

With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.

Quotes by Nonito Donaire

I do a bit of boxing in the off-season to stay fit - it's a different kind of fitness.

Quotes by Nikita Parris

I'd love to be the Ali of women's boxing, to retire as the greatest.

Quotes by Nicola Adams

As far as MMA, I want to say there's maybe five guys that do jiu-jitsu that have an actual level of understanding when it comes to boxing.

Quotes by Nick Diaz

When I was fighting, there was no boxing in Saudi Arabia because it was forbidden.

Quotes by Naseem Hamed

Boxing has lost its glamour and excitement. I'm going to bring it back.

Quotes by Naseem Hamed

During my career, there were times we were inseparable, and I can honestly say that if it were not for Brendan Ingle, I would not have achieved all I did in the sport of boxing.

Quotes by Naseem Hamed

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

Quotes by Morley Callaghan

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

Quotes by Mika

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

Quotes by Miguel Cotto

I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle - at least take falls - in a boxing ring.

Quotes by Mickie James

I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.

Quotes by Micky Ward

Boxing is like the Wild West. There are no rules. It's horrible.

Quotes by Michelle Beadle

I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.

Quotes by Mary Kom

I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.

Quotes by Mary Kom

Without boxing, I can't live. I love boxing.

Quotes by Mary Kom

Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.

Quotes by Marvin Hagler

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

Quotes by Mark McGrath

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Quotes by Mark de Mori

Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

Quotes by Mandy Bujold

I started on the phones, taking orders, and then I did the toppings, making the pizzas, cutting and boxing them - everything, really.

Quotes by Lucy Bronze

When I was 17 or 18, I realised I could do something with boxing.

Quotes by Liam Smith

I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

Quotes by Laila Ali

I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then.

Quotes by Ken Norton

I love playing for Ireland, and I love soccer, but when it comes down to it, I would choose boxing as my number one sport, as I'd miss it too much if I wasn't involved.

Quotes by Katie Taylor

It's great to be boxing a local boxer. The atmosphere is always fantastic. I love those fights. I really relish those fights.

Quotes by Katie Taylor

Anthropologists believe women were among the skilled boxers of the ancient, sport-loving Minoan culture that flourished on Crete until 1100 B.C. The boxing booths at English fairs featured women in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Quotes by Katherine Dunn

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

Quotes by Katherine Dunn

For sure, the UFC and MMA became way bigger than boxing.

Quotes by Junior dos Santos

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

Quotes by Junior dos Santos

In the beginning of my all my camps, I do just boxing.

Quotes by Junior dos Santos

I love to train boxing, and I think I have enough skills in boxing.

Quotes by Junior dos Santos

Boxing is always serious.

Quotes by Juan Manuel Marquez

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

Quotes by Juan Manuel Marquez

At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while.

Quotes by Juan Manuel Marquez

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

That was my biggest dream, to one day become champion in MMA and boxing. That is my biggest dream.

Quotes by Jose Aldo

I'm not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.

Quotes by Jorge Masvidal

Wrestling is different than MMA or boxing or really any other contact sport in that you can't really draw along an opponent.

Quotes by Jordan Burroughs

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

Quotes by Jonathan Ames

I did a bit of boxing when younger. Once I was joined by Muhammad Ali as my co-commentator. I've got a picture of the two of us together ringside at the Albert Hall on my wall at home.

Quotes by John Motson

I thought boxing was stupid.

Quotes by John G. Avildsen

To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.

Quotes by John Garfield

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

Quotes by John Barrymore

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

Quotes by Joe Louis

Boxing was my destiny.

Quotes by Joe Calzaghe

I like watching athletics and I like watching boxing. Probably the sprints, I like watching sprinting.

Quotes by Jimi Manuwa

Boxing never hurt me at all.

Quotes by Jake LaMotta

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

Quotes by Jack Dempsey

The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.

Quotes by J. R. Ramirez

I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.

Quotes by J. R. Ramirez

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

Quotes by Irwin Winkler

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

Quotes by Idi Amin

I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.

Quotes by Holt McCallany

I started competing on boxing, so I have my hands. I'm an O.K. wrestler, so why not?

Quotes by Henry Cejudo

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