My arms are too short to box with God.
Johnny CashIf they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad AliThe 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. TooleI'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
Muhammad AliOnly 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 AgassiTag: loneliness boxing tennis opponents solitary-confinement
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 JonesTag: men violence sports boxing gambling masculinity
Boxers, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.
Wayne KellyTag: irish boxing boxer german wayne-kelly wayne-l-kelly
Never Fight ugly people—they have nothing to Lose.
Wayne KellyTag: irish boxing boxer german wayne-l-kelly
The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.
Wayne KellyTag: irish boxing boxer german wayne-kelly wayne-l-kelly
It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
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