Boxing
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Boxing also called prizefighting (when referring to professional boxing), the sweet science (a common nickname among fans) or the gentleman's sport (used mainly in England), is a sport and martial art in which two participants of particular weight classification fight each other with their gloved fists in a series of three-minute intervals called "rounds". Women's and amateur boxing consists of 2 minute rounds.
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- Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.
- Frank Bruno, 'The Emma Brockes interview' in the Guardian, Monday, 24th October 2005[1]
- Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
- Muhammad Ali, attributed in Chambers Sporting Quotations (1990), by Simon James, p. 27
- Champions aren't made in gyms, champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
- Muhammad Ali, in Talent Is Never Enough : Discover the Choices That Will Take You Beyond Your Talent (2007) by John C. Maxwell, p. 141
- BOXING: A mutual infliction of brain damage for the amusement of the public.
- Rick Bayan, The Cynic's Dictionary
- To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
- Jack Handey view on boxing, he is an American humorist[2]
- Boxing is for men, and is about men, and IS men. A celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
- Joyce Carol Oates commenting on boxing in her book 'On Boxing'[3]
- You know, I cut easily, so I don’t think I would’ve won the title, but I would’ve been a contender.
- Roger Donahue, American boxer. As quoted by Budd Shulberg in his interview for The Times (UK) newspaper, 19th January 2009
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- In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
- Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.
- He can run, but he can't hide
- Joe Louis who coined two of boxing's most famous quotes
