393 Quotes About Boxing
- Author John Boyle O'Reilly
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All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.
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- Author Joyce Carol Oates
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
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- Author Kim Orr
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We were boxing out and rebounding, but in the second quarter, they really started putting the pressure on us. Mentally, we kind of couldn't handle it.
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- Author Shanna Olson
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We need to concentrate on boxing out. We'll be outsized by a lot at state.
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- Author Charlie Pierce
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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.
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- Author Dominic Purcell
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My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.
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- Author Floyd Patterson
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Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.
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- Author John Powell
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He'd run around, pretend like he was boxing everybody, ... Everyone kind of laughed at how he was. But the main thing I would say about him, he was so focused on it.
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- Author Wolfgang Puck
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When you meet someone, ask about what hobby they have, not what they do. People always ask me about cooking, but I prefer to talk about tennis or boxing.
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