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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.
I'm proud to say that my sister was the first female boxer in the Olympics. That's history. She made her mark. And that's what you want to do in any sport.
My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.
Muhammad Ali is my hero. Yes, he was the best boxer in the world, but he also put himself on the line. He talked when black Americans had to be quiet.
My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
I am sick and tired of Cassius Clay going around and saying he is the greatest and what a tremendous boxer he has been.
Collyhurst and Moston was where I learned about professionalism. I'd never had a job prior to walking in the gym, and I witnessed the hard work that went into being a boxer.
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
My father tells me I would have been a criminal or a kick-boxer. But fatherhood has changed me - a lot.
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
There is a world of difference between being a reality TV star and a world champion boxer.
I find I work best as a reactor, trying to portray something on a screen musically. If I were a boxer, I'd be a counter-puncher.
Sugar Ray Robinson is my favorite boxer of all time. He is a middleweight. I saw him and liked him.
You look at De La Hoya, and you think that he is an actor or a singer. I'd like to rearrange a couple of things on his face so the pretty boy becomes just another boxer.
Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to... I'm not just a boxer.
The biggest motivation for me is becoming a three-division world champion faster than any other boxer, male or female.
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.
When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.
The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.
I think going in a boxing ring with Conor would be great, or in MMA... No ill will towards the guy but I actually believe I'm a better boxer.
Being a white boxer is like being a republican. No matter how hard you work, you'll always lose because of the Mexicans.
Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?
Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.
People want to see blood. They don't care anymore if you can box for 12 rounds. They don't appreciate the art of the good boxer.
I'll fight anyone I can beat. I'm a businessman first and a boxer second. I'm looking for the readies. The aim is to win at all costs.
Promoters need you. You don't need them... The boxer has the leverage, and a lot of boxers don't know that.
We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.
Having nasal surgery while you're an active boxer is like breast surgery, a lift right before you have kids. What's the point?
Some people think a boxer is a gloomy guy with this heavy brow who always has to be serious. But why can't you laugh a bit, make a joke?
Every boxer needs to be able to punch, but none more than me, and that's because I'm not that skilful, and I'm one of the smallest heavyweights you'll ever see.
I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
I want to be known to fans and appreciated as a 'boxer-painter' in regards to speed, footwork, punching power - an art form inside the ring.
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.
I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.
I don't claim to be the best boxer in the world. What I claim to do is give 100% when I get in that ring.
I think I'll got to Thailand for a year and become a Thai boxer. I'm gonna train for a year.
In the 46-48 kg. category, I know every boxer, and I defeat them whenever I fight them.
Saw the best boxer, pound for pound: Roy Jones. Not a lot of hype, though.
The physical DNA has always been part of our family. My dad was a good boxer and gymnast; my mum is a ballroom dancer, and my brother does martial arts.
I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.
I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.
If I'm watching my favorite boxer, and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world, and he retires, it kind of makes the guy a legend.
A boxer is like a lion, the greatest predator on land, but you throw him in the shark tank and he's just another meal.
If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.
Think about all the great boxers who have fought here, starting with Muhammad Ali. And as well as all that, I believe I will be the first boxer from Liverpool to appear at the Garden.
I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
I used to laugh at MMA and say 'do you know what a boxer would do to an MMA guy?' and then I got educated on the truth.
Boxing has parallels with stand-up, because you're on your own. If a boxer gets knocked out in the first round, it's humiliating.
If you look at Mayweather's fights he often likes to get into the clinch, but what is a boxer in a clinch against a wrestler, an MMA fighter?
I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.
Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
I've got to take measured steps and avoid the pitfalls. Life in general has pitfalls, but being a boxer there's even more.
It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.
Honestly, I don't like to brag about myself, but I really think I'm the only boxer who came out better from a Hopkins fight.
You can't act being a boxer. It's like being on stage.
Yes, cricket is still the number one choice for youngsters, but today, a child wouldn't hesitate to tell his parents that they want to be a boxer or anything.
You?'ve got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I don?t miss anything.