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Posted 03.31.13 � "Every talent must unfold itself in fighting." � Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.30.13 � "Each boxing match is a story � a unique and highly condensed drama without words." � Joyce Carol Oates, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.29.13 � "Did you keep your chin down?" � Cus D'Amato, boxing trainer, to Jose Torres, boxer, who had called the trainer after being arrested for a street fight [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.28.13 � " 'Cause the referee counted 11." � Gene Fullmer, boxer, recounting what his manager replied when he asked why his fight with Sugar Ray Robinson had been stopped � Fullmer had been knocked out [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.27.13 � "Boxing gave Liston an opportunity to meet bigtime hoodlums instead of small time ones." � Attributed to a police officer by Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter, about Sonny Liston, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.26.13 � "Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire." � George Foreman, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.25.13 � "Benny's an awful smart boxer. All the time he's in there, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him." � Jack Britton, boxer, replying to a question about how he beat Benny Leonard [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.24.13 � "As a younger fighter I was just a boxer. But now my main strength is starting to come. I can tell when I hit someone." � Ricardo Williams, Jr., boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.23.13 � "After a round of dancing and jabbing, he was hit in the face with a wet sponge. He was rubbed, patted, squeezed and kneaded. Cold water was poured into his trunks. He was harangued, he was reprimanded, and he listened to nothing at all." � Leonard Gardner, novelist, from Fat City, a classic work of boxing fiction [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.22.13 � "When I see blood, I become a bull." � Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.21.13 � "What do you know about prize-fighting, for Christ's sweet sake?" � Ernest Hemingway, writer and outdoorsman, to Budd Schulberg, writer, screenwriter and fellow boxing aficionado [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.20.13 � "They all have their entourages. Every lawyer, every accountant, every hustler is hanging around." Lou Duva, boxing trainer, on boxers [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.19.13 � "The most symbolic battles are no longer, as in the old days of Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and Ray Robinson, white versus black, nor, as in the 'sixties and 'seventies with Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and Ken Norton, black versus black, but rather black versus Latin. No fight could have more appropriately opened the era of the 'eighties in boxing than the first Sugar Ray Leonard versus Roberto Duran bout." � Gerald Early, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.18.13 � "The uninitiated, the cultivated, the educated don't accept that boxing has existed since pre-Hellenic Greece, and possibly since the time of the pharaohs, but it concedes one musky truth about masculinity: hitting a man is sometimes the most satisfying response to being a man. Disturbing, maybe, but there it is." � J.R. Moehringer, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.17.13 � "Theirs is a lonely sport, at times ugly, brutal, naked. You have to get inside a ring to appreciate how small it is. You wonder how men can ever escape." � Howard Cosell, broadcaster, on boxers [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.16.13 � "The closer a heavyweight comes to the championship, the more natural it is for him to be a little bit insane, secretly insane, for the heavyweight champion of the world is either the toughest man in the world or he is not, but there is a great deal of possibility he is. It is like being the big toe of God." � Norman Mailer, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.15.13 � "Someday they're going to write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be slow guitar, soft trumpet and a bell." � Sonny Liston, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.14.13 � "So far as the boxing game is concerned, the contest next Monday is well named 'the fight of the century.' These two men, in a class by themselves so far as other fighters go, yet so radically different from each other as to have no salient characteristics in common." � Jack London, author and outdoorsman, writing about the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.13.13 � "Prize fighters often are a tough, surly group of men. They use boxing to release rage." � Seth Abraham, television executive [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.12.13 � "Old fighters react to training the way beautiful women react to scrubbing floors." � Norman Mailer, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.11.13 � "Like a dancer, a boxer 'is' his body, and is totally identified with it." � Joyce Carol Oates, writer and boxing aficionado [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.10.13 � "I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledge-hammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days, you'll understand." � Jack Dempsey, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.09.13 � "I was never knocked out. I've been unconscious, but it's always been on my feet." � Floyd Patterson, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.08.13 � "I'm not boxing anymore. I'm going back to fighting the old-school way. I'm going to walk through guys and destroy them." � Oscar De La Hoya, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.07.13 � "I know a good thing when I see it. Fighting is a good thing. It is like gold in that it is found in a nugget cluster of baser metals often buried in the mud." � Budd Schulberg, writer and screenwriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.06.13 � "I got into this business because I got tired of beating up people for free." � Larry Holmes, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.05.13 � "If fighting is your business, fight!" � Grantland Rice, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.04.13 � "I haven't got long to go, and I want my family to be around me, happy, on one more Christmas. I won't be here for another. Please, Jack, I want to fight." � Billy Miske, boxer, to boxing promoter Jack Reddy. The dying boxer was begging for a fight so that he could buy presents for his family. [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.03.13 � "I can't be a poet. I can't tell stories." � Barry McGuigan, boxer, when asked why he was a boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.02.13 � "He was gauche and inaccurate, but terribly persistent." � Heywood Hale Broun, sportswriter and commentator, about a forgettable boxing match [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.01.13 � "Hardly a blow had been struck when I knew I was Jeff's master." � Jack Johnson, boxer, about the famous Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries boxing match [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]