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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
-Muhammad Ali
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
-Muhammad Ali
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It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
-Muhammad Ali
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Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
-Muhammad Ali
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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
-Muhammad Ali
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
-Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
-Muhammad Ali
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Boxing is just show business with blood.
-Frank Bruno
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
-Jack Dempsey
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I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
-George Foreman
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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
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There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff.
-George Foreman
In Newsweek, January 26, 1976
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All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.
-Larry Holmes
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Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
-Joe Louis
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Boxing is dangerous, but at least it hits the right people.
-Gerhard Kocher
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In the films the good guy always wins, but this is one bad guy who ain't gonna lose.
-Sonny Liston, Before the title fight with Floyd Patterson, in which he became the heavyweight champion., September 25, 1962
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Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
-Joe E. Louis
A Hard Road to Glory, 1988
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I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.
-Rocky Marciano
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It's the boxers who attract the real women, after all, with their raw primeval strength, beautifully toned bodies and just a touch of vulnerability.
-Eamonn Mccabe
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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer -- he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
-Hunter S. Thompson
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Books about Boxing
