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  • Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

    Music   Sports   People  
  • I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.

  • 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, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
  • What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.

    Hands   Boxing   Gossip  
  • When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

  • As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

    Budd Schulberg (2012). “Sparring with Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game”, p.241, Open Road Media
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 17, 2015
  • For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

    Jesus   Teaching   Men  
    "Watching Rocky Ii With Muhammad Ali" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. July 31, 1979.
  • I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

    "One Direction Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. October 10, 2012.
  • Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

    Boxing   Guy   Waltz  
    "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.
  • I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.

  • The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

    FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Nov 17, 2014
  • He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

    Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011
  • Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

    Badass   Women   Boxing  
  • The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

    Boxing   Devil   World  
    Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.272, Macmillan
  • I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

    Twitter post from Jan 09, 2015
  • The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

    Men   Boxing   Rings  
    "On Boxing". Book by Joyce Carol Oates, 1987.
  • The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  • Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

    Funny   Sports   Stupid  
  • Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

    Funny   Sports   Money  
    "Underdog Boxing: Pumped up for the Pacquiao-Mosley undercard fights" by Carlo L.Pamintuan, www.gmanetwork.com. February 10, 2011.
  • All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

    "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.
  • A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

  • If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

    Sports   Boxing   Tennis  
  • I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.

    "The man in the irony mask". Interview with Seth Mnookin, www.vanityfair.com. October, 2007.
  • The surface below your feet is so special. It is not like a boxing ring, not like a wrestling mat, it's its own thing, and when I am there, I am floating, I am moving with total freedom, I am free. And when you know, when you just know you are going to win, like I do, there is no better feeling.

    Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
  • I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

  • Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

  • I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

    "The man in the Irony Mask" by Seth Mnookin, www.vanityfair.com. October 2007.
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