447 Boxing Quotes for You to Enjoy

Boxing is not always about standing in the middle going toe to toe. It's about poise and grace under extreme pressure. Peter Berg

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There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent. Peter Berg

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I've always found boxing to be an incredibly pure sport. The level of character of most fighters I find very high. And it's just the best workout you can get. Peter Berg

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If you're a 50-year-old guy, and you're sitting around the house with - you know, and just getting fatter, feeling sorry for yourself, get up and move your body and see what it does to your life and to your mind and to your happiness and to your energy levels. And I get all that from boxing. Peter Berg

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Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details. Peter Berg

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I'm not itching for a fight. But I'm just saying when I see the other guy putting on his boxing gloves and, you know, you've got dancing around in the ring, I kind of suspect that maybe a fight's coming. Phil Gingrey

At The Verve's first-ever gig, I said that we were gonna blow this local band off the stage. It was only in the local Wigan paper, and they rang me to ask why I was being so aggressive. I just went, 'Hey man, it's like boxing. I'm just trying to sell a ticket.' Richard Ashcroft

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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan, would sit through the night watching boxing matches and would hit the bag at every opportunity I would get. Robbie Lawler

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I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid. Robert Goulet

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But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club. Rod Taylor

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Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. Roger Kahn

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But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in. Roone Arledge

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MMA has evolved. When you look at an MMA fighter's skill set, boxing has to be a big piece of it. All of them have a boxing coach now and strive to have a good stand-up game, knowing that to be a complete fighter, you have to tend to your striking skills. Scott Coker

My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time. Sean Bean

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Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor. Seth Numrich

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Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting. Seth Numrich

Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house. Sharon Horgan

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