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BOXING QUOTES
Quotes cited from Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, 1988.
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Joyce Carol Oates
QUOTATION: [The] third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
ATTRIBUTION: On introduction of referees in late 19th century
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Mike Trainer, boxing manager
QUOTATION: [Sugar] Ray Leonard is the kind of guy who’s always looking at the edge of the cliff, fascinated as to how close he can get to it. He hasn’t gotten to the edge yet.
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Joyce Carol Oates
QUOTATION: [Boxing is] a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
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Sugar Ray Robinson, prizefighter
QUOTATION: My business is hurting people.
ATTRIBUTION: Comment to NY State Boxing Commission, news summaries 23 May 62
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Joyce Carol Oates
QUOTATION: Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. ATTRIBUTION: On Boxing Doubleday 87, quoted in NY Times 15 Mar 87
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Luis González Seara
QUOTATION: Some violent spectacle is normal in most countries.
ATTRIBUTION: On bullfighting as compared to boxing in the US and fox hunting in Great Britain, NY Times 17 Sep 85
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Larry Holmes
QUOTATION: It’s hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once—when I was poor.
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