boxing quotes

Squash is boxing with racquets.

-Jonah Barrington
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Boxing is show-business with blood.

- David stagename of  David Valasco Belasco
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

I have covered boxing, promoted boxing, watched it, thought about it, and after long reflection I cannot find a single thing that isgood about it either from the point of view of participant or spectator.

- Noel Gallagher
Quoted in Edith Summerskill The Ignoble Art (1956).

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

I have always considered that boxing really combines all the finest and highest inclinations of a manactivity, endurance, science, temper, and, last, but not least, presence of mind.

- Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale
  Foreword in Eugene Corri ThirtyYears a Boxing Referee.

No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.

- Norman Kingsley Mailer
  The Fight.