Boxing

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
Gene Tunney
Basketball
Boxing
Running
My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.
Gene Tunney
Ambition
Boxing
Defense
Order
Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
Gene Tunney
Boxing
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
Gene Tunney
Boxing
Reason
Temperament
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
Blame
Boxing
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
Boxing
Chess
End
Training
The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
Al Sharpton
Boxing
Corruption
World
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
Budd Schulberg
Love
Boxing
Hate
I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.
Dick Schaap
Balance
Boxing
Job
Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.
Dick Schaap
Boxing
Months
World
Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.
Dick Schaap
Love
People
Boxing
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
Dick Schaap
Sports
Boxing
Racing
Today, many fans are saddened and upset by the lack of integrity they see in professional boxing that has significantly weakened the sport - the most deplorable problem of which is the treatment of the sport's athletes.
Charles W. Pickering
Athletes
Boxing
Fans
Integrity
Today
Treatment
The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport.
Charles W. Pickering
Boxing
Today
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips
Boxing
Chess
Computer