#boxing

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#bigger #boxing #fought #guys #i

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#being #boxing #century #changing #dragged

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#both #both sides #boxing #received #sides

The old white man didn't look into your eyes, he looked clear through your eyes, and straight to the inside of the back of your head. 'Instead of runnin from pain, which is the natural thing in life, in boxing you step to it, get me? ↗

— F.X. Toole

#life #life

I lost my edge for boxing, I didn't put as much into it as I did before. I didn't run as far. I didn't train as hard. I didn't eat correctly. I started drinking a little bit every now and then. ↗

— Ken Norton

#bit #boxing #correctly #did #drinking

With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts! ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#nuts #say #sit #start #you

Boxing has become America's tragic theater. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#america #become #boxing #theater #tragic

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#being #boxing #devastating #feeling #hit

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#boxing #celebration #lost #masculinity #more

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#makes #man #possible #ring #third