#boxing

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. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

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Boxing is what pays my bills. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#boxing #pays

In boxing, everybody has their favorites. ↗

— Thomas Hearns

#everybody #favorites #their

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

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

#any #boxing #chess #chess game #different

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me. ↗

— Leon Spinks

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