Quotes by Chris Eubank Sr. - Page 2

When I finished boxing, all that was available was commentating. But that's not me. I've got too much artistic licence to get out.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Artistic
Me Too Much Much
Licence
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I have always been the sort of person to give advice to those coming up behind me and I will continue to. It's what I do, what I am.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Advice
Always I Am Me
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I'll fight anyone I can beat. I'm a businessman first and a boxer second. I'm looking for the readies. The aim is to win at all costs.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Aim
Businessman
Looking
Anyone
Beat
Boxer
Costs
Fight
Second
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What can you say to someone like me? When you've got 19 world championship wins, it's almost like you're cursed because you're too good.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Championship
Cursed
Good World Me
Wins
World Championship
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No one escapes the long arm of the law, they are a business, they are very good at what they do and eventually they will catch up with you.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Arm
Good Business Long
Catch
Escapes
Eventually
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I see myself as a martial artist. I'm a creative fighter. It's not about hitting the guy and hurting him, it's about scoring points, with grace.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Fighter
Grace
Hitting
Hurting
Martial
Scoring
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Let me tell you, the jodhpur in the world of fashion is a formidable adversary to the trouser. It gives automatic swagger to anyone who wears them.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Formidable
Swagger
Adversary
World Me Fashion
Automatic
Wears
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The first martial art my son learnt aged around ten was jiu-jitsu so he can already wrestle. I'd have no concerns about Christopher boxing someone from MMA.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Mma
Aged
Christopher
Concerns
Learnt
Martial
Wrestle
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My father never played with me. I can remember my father picking me up - once. I can remember my father telling me behind a closed door that he loved me - once.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Me Remember Father
Closed
Door
Father Me Remember
Picking
Telling
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For lunch I like corned beef, white rice and fried onions, which I've eaten for as long as I can remember. My father used to make it; now, no one does it like me.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Beef
Lunch
Onions
Rice
Me Long Remember
Long Me Remember
Eaten
Fried
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I beat many good fighters and many who were better than me and the reason I beat them was because I was persistent, I was willing to go through those pain barriers.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Barriers
Persistent
Good Pain Me
Fighters
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I was a speed freak once. I had an Aston Martin when I first made it big and I used to take it to its limits. I once drove from Lewes to London in 45 minutes - mad.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Freak
Limits
Speed
Drove
Martin
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Every fighter has a duty to boxing to not bring themselves or the sport into disrepute by foul language or behaviour so that boxing can be seen as a gentleman's sport.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Behaviour
Boxing
Fighter
Foul
Gentleman
Seen
Bring
Sport
Themselves
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At 19, I decided to turn professional and accepted my first fight for $250 at the Atlantis Hotel, Atlantic City, on October 3 1985. It set up my whole career and life.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Accepted
Decided
Hotel
October
Atlantic
City
Fight
Professional
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The people who have done it - I have been in there - a lot of people love boxing but they have not actually been in there, and haven't tasted the bitterness of a beating.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Bitterness
Boxing
Love Done People
Beating
Tasted
Love People Done
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Michael Watson is a part of me. It's in my head, it's in my grain. There are scars within me. Therefore, those scars are what allows me to steer and protect other fighters.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Grain
Protect
Watson
Steer
Michael
Fighters
Scars
Therefore
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However controversial Mayweather may be, he doesn't bring down the name of boxing. The fast cars, the jets and the money causes controversy but that does not bring the game down.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Boxing
Causes
Controversial
Fast
Fast Cars
However
Jets
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You play football, rugby, tennis. You do not play boxing. When a sportsperson is in a game, when it gets too much, you quit. But in boxing you can't quit. You have to be taken out.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Rugby
Play Football
Quit
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I've became a coffee drinker since I gave up boxing. I also love to eat anything cooked by a Jamaican. Carbs like rice, yellow yam, Renta yam, sweet yam. Also salt fish fried with onions.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Boxing
Carbs
Coffee
Onions
Rice
Salt
Yellow
Eat
Since
Became
Fish
Cooked
Drinker
Fried
Gave
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From the age of 17, I lived the life of a hermit and dedicated myself to gym life, first in the South Bronx and then back in England. I was in a bubble and I bypassed a lot of popular culture.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Bronx
Dedicated
Popular Culture
Life Age Myself
Bubble
Hermit
South Bronx
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I went to a foreign land, New York City in 1982 and had no money, no respect in the gym. Everyone thinks you're full of it. The remit in those days was break his heart, get him out of the gym.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
New York
Respect
Break
Gym
Heart
New York City
No Respect
Everyone
Days
City
Full
Foreign
Foreign Land
Him
Thinks
York
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You aren't going to show me something I haven't seen. Nobody can bring something to me that I don't already know, not in boxing. That's where I've mastered my trade, I can't talk in other fields.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Fields
Me Nobody Know
Mastered
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The reason why I'm such a successful pugilist is that no one knows my limitations better than me. I am quite good, but I am not the best in the world. But I am one of the best and I'm quite content with that.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Best Good Better
Best Good World
Content
Limitations
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I think a great deal of my son, I love my son. The things I do are unthinkable. I do them because he even though he can't see the pain on my side, I still give and give for what? So he can have a better future.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Better Future
Pain
Son
Unthinkable
Love Future Great
Great Deal
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My mother imparted on me that I must be a good custodian of my father's name and that is what I ask of my children. One should conduct themselves in the correct manner, respect one's elders and do the right thing.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Elders
Right Thing
Good Respect Me
Conduct
Correct
Custodian
Do The Right Thing
Manner
The Right Thing
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My objective as a mentor, as a father, as a manager and as a former participant of the great game of boxing is to protect mine, but also the opponent. Especially if I can see things which I have experienced before.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Former
Objective
Opponent
Participant
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There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are not allowed free speech. If you speak freely, you are then deemed as I was, to be a subversive.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Free Speech
Spite
Subversive
Certain Things
Deemed
Freely
Supposedly
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I am always fully in tune with the interviewer, who is usually trying to make me look silly. My objective is quite the opposite during an interview: I never use my wit or my intellect to make the interviewer look silly.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Intellect
Silly
Wit
Look I Am Me
Interview
Objective
Tune
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Broccoli is not as bad as people make out. It might give you wind, but I'd prefer to have wind and have good health. Health is the number one thing on the planet. However, I am quite partial to rum and raisin ice cream.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Health
Broccoli
Cream
Good Health
Ice
Ice Cream
Might
One Thing
Rum
Wind
Health Good Good Health
Thing
Am
Quite
Make
Prefer
Bad
Out
Number
Give
However
Partial
Planet
Raisin
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It's the only thing that allowed me to win so many championship fights and allowed me to put up with the bigotry of the media, the keyboard warriors, the critics. I've endured it all because, spiritually, I am buoyant, alive.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Championship
Critics
Fights
Buoyant
Endured
Spiritually
Warriors
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I've always had something much more than money, which is respect. When I was champion, people looked into my heart and some said, 'We may not like Mr Eubank, but we respect him. He fights beyond the call of duty and he never quits.'
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Fights
Quits
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When I say my family suffered for my anti-war protesting, one of the many fallouts was having to send my two sons to America because I couldn't keep control of them when the divorce happened... there are consequences for your actions.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Anti War
Divorce
Consequences
Suffered
Protesting
Sons
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The feeling between two fighters is profound. We go places where normal people don't go. You smell a man's blood, it smells like rust. You get into a clench, you feel his strength, you feel his desperation, he feels yours. You're sharing this.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Blood
Desperation
Normal
Profound
Rust
Smell
Two
Between
Feeling
Fighters
Normal People
Places
Sharing
Smells
Yours
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Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure you get from a new proverb or a new painting. It puts you in a particular frame of mind. Visually I like art, philosophically I like art.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Painting
Particular
Pleasure
Recognise
Frame
Images
Philosophically
Proverb
Puts
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I probably give 80% more to my children than my father gave to me and still it doesn't come up to scratch. I don't feel guilty about it. Do my children love me? I think that is self-evident. Will they have psychological scars? No, because they have a wonderful mummy.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Guilty
Mummy
Psychological
Love Me
Love Father Me
Scars
Scratch
Self-Evident
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I moved to New York aged 16, and worked part-time in a Korean store in South Bronx selling groceries, bread and confectionery. I earned $10 and it was painful because I didn't want to be there. I also worked in Debenhams as a kid, and a Wimpy in Brighton when I was 20.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
New York
Bread
Brighton
Bronx
Groceries
Moved
Painful
Part Time
Selling
Aged
Earned
South Bronx
Store
Worked
York
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Geezers might say, 'I wouldn't wear make-up even if I was going on TV,' but why not? You'll look better. I can most frankly be called a geezer - I've earned the right to be called a geezer, a proper stand-up guy, that kind of thing - and if I can wear make-up, so can you.'
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Why Not
Earned
Frankly
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Boxing? She's like a woman. If you've never wooed her, never won her, you always look back wondering what would have happened had you had her. If you caught her and had a long relationship, you don't really look back. Do I miss her? No, because I've had her, I've moved on.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Moved On
Wondering
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My father, who was illiterate, smoothed iron for Ford Dagenham and we'd get up at 5;30 A.M. to give him a jump-start. My mother was a nurse and part of the Windrush generation. Growing up in east London, we were financially poor, but rich in hope and dignity, and we were happy.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Dignity
East
Growing Up
Illiterate
Iron
London
Mother
Nurse
Poor
Rich
Financially
Ford
Generation
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In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women... I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Educated
Accordance
Certain Extent
Extent
Finer
Speaks
Superior
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When I was 11 my school held a sports day near Crystal Palace. We were told we were going to play a rugby match. The ball was eventually passed to me and I was obviously expected to run with it. I took one look at all these players charging towards me, placed the ball on the ground and walked off the pitch.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Charging
Expected
Rugby
Ball
Pitch
Crystal
Eventually
Towards
Ground
Held
Match
Near
Obviously
Palace
Passed
Placed
Walked
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Boxing is the more dangerous activity from the rugby player's and the general public's point of view, but to me rugby is far more dangerous so I would prefer my sons to box. I love my children too much and do not want to watch them getting hurt. This is in no way intended as a criticism of rugby, which I consider to be a fantastic sport.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Activity
Boxing
Criticism
Fantastic
Hurt
Player
Point Of View
Rugby
Too Much
Love Me Children
General
Prefer
Box
Consider
Public
Watch
Sport
Love View Me
Intended
Sons
View
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Benn was brute force, wasn't he? But he found God when he was 40... and the only reason I beat him, was because I was brought up in the church. It teaches you to be calm to be objective and steady and the reasoning I used beat him - and he found it when he was 40. I didn't change anything: there is only one way, to be calm, gentle and true.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Brute Force
Calm
Church
Force
Gentle
Reasoning
Steady
Beat
Brought
Brute
Objective
Only One Way
Teaches
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