#boxing

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Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.


"Irish" Wayne Kelly


#boxing #german #irish #wayne-kelly #wayne-l-kelly

I’m not courageous. In fact, when I shadow box I wear boxing gloves that are outfitted with flashlights.


Jarod Kintz


#courage #cowardly #flashlights #funny #humor

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize


Mohammed Ali


#confidence #victory #dreams

Boxing’s not that straightforward,” said Eldric. “You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.


Franny Billingsley


#experiences #practice #experience

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.


Liam Payne


#boxing #bullied #camp #coach #could

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement....


Andre Agassi


#loneliness #opponents #solitary-confinement #tennis #men

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.


James Jones


#gambling #masculinity #men #sports #violence

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.


Muhammad Ali


#insult #insult

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.


Peter Berg


#became #being #boxing #characters #cop

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.


Frank Bruno


#toughest #world