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BOXING QUOTES
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Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
~JOYCE CAROL OATES, On Boxing
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If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.
~PAUL HAGGIS, Million Dollar Baby
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Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.
~MIKE TYSON, Boxing Monthly, Aug. 2000
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Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.
~F.X. TOOLE, introduction, Million Dollary Baby
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Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
~ROGER KAHN, "Intellectuals and Ball Players," American Scholar, Nov. 3, 1957
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Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.
~HOWARD COSELL, I Never Played the Game
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When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
~MIKE TYSON, Sports Illustrated, Mar. 1988
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I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.
~MUHAMMAD ALI, The Soul of a Butterfly
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Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.
~RALPH WILEY, Serenity: A Boxing Memoir
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When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.
~MUHAMMAD ALI, The Soul of a Butterfly
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Boxing is a sport at its most brutal, most primitive, and most natural. Two men defending their honor and courage, in a ring surrounded by observers, whose love for the sport is essentially spiritual. Boxing is the last refuge of the modern day warror.
~THOMAS DONELSON, Viewing Boxing from Ringside
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Boxing is drama on its grandest scale.
HOWARD COSELL, I Never Played the Game
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