Quotes of the Week - Nov 10, 2009:
"I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago." --
Bernie Madoff, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in newly released
interview with representatives of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train
set as a kid." --Warren Buffett, investor, on his company's $26
billion purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad - its biggest
deal ever.
"I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears."
-- Rihanna, pop singer, on the unprecedented levels of media attention
she endured after she was assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown
in February.
Topic: Boxing Quotes - Famous Boxing
Quotes, Quotations, Sayings
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey
were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own. Muhammad Ali
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no
choreography, and the dancers hit each other. Jack Handy
Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none
of them serious. Alan Minter
All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was
thinking, I was hitting him. Jack Dempsey
I wanted to do in boxing what Bruce Lee was able to do in karate.
Lee was an artist, and, like him, I try to get beyond the fundamentals
of my sport. I want my fights to be seen as plays. Sugar Ray Leonard
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up. Muhammad Ali
When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a
ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring,
or in a boxing ring. Bob Seger
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity
all the more trenchant for its being lost. Joyce Carol Oates
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Muhammad Ali
Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because
it is headless. Bob Verdi
The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. Joyce Carol Oates
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something
they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision. Muhammad Ali
Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for
victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson
took a second helping. Fred Mitchell
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each
other up. Muhammad Ali
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Bob Verdi quotes
A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good
guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people
pay for - to see the bad guys get beat. Sonny Liston
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. Frank Bruno
And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot
of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head. Alicia Keys
Boxing has become America's tragic theater. Joyce Carol Oates
As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it,
I love it. Budd Schulberg
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was
the kid with the piano books in a New York neighborhood. Billy Joel
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate
it. George Foreman
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. Roger Kahn
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your
money took and your name in the undertaker book. Joe Frazier
People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President
Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never
be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley - I was the
Elvis of boxing. Muhammed Ali
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register. Bob Verdi
I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's
force that way. Sophia Bush
I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in
body bags when I'm right. Mike Tyson
Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated,
but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought
boxing to another level and always made you laugh. Gerry Cooney
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