Boxing is just show business with blood. ~Frank Bruno
I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either. ~MUHAMMAD ALI, The Soul of a Butterfly
*** They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. ~William Shakespeare
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Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. ~ George Foreman Relating boxing advice he received from Archie Moore on posturing before a fight.
*** Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers
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Prize-fighting is still accepted as a display worthy of a civilized people despite the fact that all those connected with it are fully aware it caters to the latent sadistic instincts.~Edith Summerskill (1901-1980)A Woman's World, ch. 12.
* * * Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov
