Quotes About Boxing Matches

#1. I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.

Markus Zusak

#2. I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.

George Foreman

#3. Life," Graveworthy said, when he saw Jack was awake and staring at him, "is a series of desperate gambles and boxing matches for the wits, bookended on the one side by events in which one is shot at, and on the other end by mornings like this.

Sam Starbuck

#4. I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

George Foreman

#5. It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better than the boxing matches. We kept drinking.

Charles Bukowski

#6. Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.

Sharon Horgan

#7. Tex Rickard started his career staging boxing matches for Nome's miners, then moved on to New York and built Madison Square Garden, becoming one

Gay Salisbury

#8. It's always money no matter kind of budget you have, though, it forces you to be creative and not take anything for granted.

Matthew Bonifacio

#9. Nothing cheap without reason.

Idries Shah

#10. Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

Branch Rickey

#11. Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Eileen Wilks

#12. 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

#13. Boxing is beautiful brutality, and the devil is in the duality. Boxing is a tug of war and you recognize the antithetical feelings that are pulling you from the other end.

Brian D'Ambrosio

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

Brian D'Ambrosio

#15. I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

Tom Metzger

#16. You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.

Penny Lernoux

#17. To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that are found in the mineral kingdom, is the proper object of a THEORY OF THE EARTH.

John Playfair

#18. I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

#19. Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.

E. M. Forster

#20. Leadership is an achievement of trust.

Peter Drucker

#21. But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

Agnes Smedley

#22. It's not enough to be talented. It's not enough to work hard and to study late into the night. You must also become intimately aware of the methods you use to reach your decisions.

Garry Kasparov

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

Brian D'Ambrosio