Boxing quotations

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◆ Life is a boxing match you're going to have enemies throwing punches at you left right and centre. But learn to pick up your gloves and fight them back.

- Jeremy Limn99

◆ This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took.

- Antonio Tarver98

◆ They only made one mistake, they signed this fight.

- Ferdie Pacheco98

◆ Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

- Randall Cobb98

◆ My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York.

- Sonny Liston98

◆ Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.

- Fred Mitchell98

◆ The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

- Joyce Carol Oates98

◆ Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.

- Bob Verdi98

◆ I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

- Budd Schulberg98

◆ It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

- Sugar Ray Leonard98

◆ Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

- Sugar Ray Leonard98

◆ I'm not God - but I am something similar.

- Roberto Duran98

◆ There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

- Marvin Hagler98