Boxing Writers Quotes

#1. Boxing begins in illusion and ends in real blood and tears. That's what makes it so beautiful.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#2. My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I'm not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

Anna White

#3. So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

Pat Boone

#4. A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

Jimi Hendrix

#5. Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

Walter Jon Williams

#6. To be a boxer is to be within yourself, inside your thoughts and feelings.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#7. Arthur Schopenhauer: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident

Anonymous

#8. Boxing encompasses the very worst and very best of human nature and its beautiful brutality is a marvelous contradiction for a writer. It conjures up so many irreconcilably antagonistic feelings.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#9. A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

Jonathan Ames