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Boxing Quotes

"His hands can’t hit what his eyes can't see."

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth"

"I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own."

"t's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

"It takes a lot out of a fighter to throw punches that land in thin air."

"I know I can learn to hit without getting hit."

"It takes pride and tiger’s drive to build up the confidence, the ego the power to defeat an opponent in the ring."

"I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over — like the Kennedys down in Washington."

"A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end"

"I have never heard anything that affected me like those words: ‘Heavyweight Champion of the World.’"

"People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing."

"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them"

"All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him."

"Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body"

"I've always been a sucker for a prize fight."

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