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When I was growing up, I always wanted to do well in boxing. I wanted to look after my parents, and I wanted to look after myself.
I don't have the runs on the board to trash talk anyone in the boxing sense. I've got to do it the hard way and earn that respect.
There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't achieve that in boxing, you're nothing.
Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.
I didn't like school at all. I was bullied and didn't have a good time. Boxing was my escapism, and the ring was where I felt best.
In boxing you can be the most talented fighter out there but you need people to watch and I'm fortunate that I'm in that situation.
It's got difficult for me to walk down the street without people stopping me to ask for an autograph or to talk to me about boxing.
I was lucky. I held on to some of my money. I didn't really know what I wanted to do after boxing. But I found what I wanted to do.
What made my matches against Borg and Connors interesting was, comparing it to boxing, it was like a puncher and a counter-puncher.
I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.
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.
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.
I don't care about no boxing legacy. I don't care where they put me on the list of all-time greats - let them put me at the bottom.
What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out.
I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggle, going out there and fighting.
When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.
It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
If a Hollywood studio needed a fighter to play the hero in an old-time boxing movie, the search could begin and end with John Duddy.
The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.
Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.
I started on the phones, taking orders, and then I did the toppings, making the pizzas, cutting and boxing them - everything, really.
Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring.
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
If I did want to come back, I was going to make, what, $50 million? You know what; don't call my phone unless you've got $100 million.
I want to keep fighting because it's the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.
If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.
When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do
Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.
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.
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.
I know there is trouble in boxing. People say it is no longer good. But I cannot take responsibility. I am not a missionary for boxing.
Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.
This is boxing. It's not like a baseball game. The fighters say, 'I need a lot of money or I don't fight, because it's very dangerous.'
Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.
Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.
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.
Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.
When it comes to boxing, I'm a four-time champion in four different weight classes. I did it at the age of 26. You can't down talk that.
What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything.
He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.
People forget that boxing is the art of self-defence - ideally, hit and not be hit - and maybe we should all think about that a bit more.
The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
I was thrown into this world of training, and weightlifting, and boxing, and cardio. It's amazing to feel your body being capable of that.